LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
PRAIRIEOPPORTUNITY.COM: ATTRACTING THE MODERN-DAY INGALLS FAMILY TO NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
by Jason Zasky
For the past seventy years, census figures for North Dakota have been as flat as the Great Plains. Since 1930 the U.S. population has swelled from 123 million to 296 million, yet North Dakota has fewer residents today—approximately 634,000—than it did in the early nineteen-thirties. And in the northwestern part of the state, where ghost towns and abandoned farmhouses dot the landscape the problem of "out-migration" is particularly acute.