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Minority Poverty in Nonmetropolitan Texas *
Author(s) -
Saenz Rogelio,
Thomas John K.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1991.tb00432.x
Subject(s) - poverty , metropolitan area , ethnic group , census , geography , poverty level , rural area , socioeconomics , demographic economics , economic growth , development economics , political science , sociology , demography , economics , population , archaeology , law
Despite a high prevalence of poverty among minorities in nonmetropolitan areas, research and policy concerns regarding poverty have continued focusing on metropolitan minorities. This study uses a model integrating individual, household, and structural factors to examine poverty among Latinos, blacks, and Anglos in nonmetropolitan and, for comparative purposes, metropolitan areas, using data from the 1985 Special Texas Census TDHS 1987. The findings show that minorities in nonmetropolitan areas tend to have the highest poverty rates. In addition, consistent as well as divergent patterns exist among the six ethnic‐resident groups with respect to the relationships among the various individual, household, and structural factors and poverty.