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Lecture 11 dealt with the population boom on the great plains through the 1960s and the the ultimate population decline that occured starting in the 1970s. Professor Isern presented us with the information about how small towns were bustling communities until the automobile came around and started to change everythingand that peopl could go where they wanted to get there supplies or take their travels. this also lead to the eventual movement of people away from parts of the great plains as the automobile allowed people to move much easier to larger populated cities and towns leaving some of the smll communities that littered the plains just shells of their former selves. I found this unique in the fact that you still see this largely today as small communities are tending to still shinki becasue people will move away to larger communities like fargo, or the cities.

Matt Liese