The state also has growing urban centers surrounding Wichita and Kansas City that are turning from building grain elevators to building jets, microchips and electric car batteries.
While most small towns in western Kansas have seen populations plummet in recent decades, this city of nearly 20,000 people has more than doubled its number of residents since 1950 - largely thanks to the arrival of immigrant and refugee communities. There are still plenty of farms here, but these days they’re run by fewer farmers who rely more on GPS satellites than scarecrows.Īnd Liberal - hometown to the film’s archetypal white farm girl - has become the most Hispanic city in the state with roughly two-thirds of its population identifying as Latino. But Kansas has harnessed those breezes to become one of the top states for producing renewable wind energy. But in reality, today’s Kansas sits somewhere in between those two extremes.
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