Americans have moved from rural areas and small towns not only to very big cities, but also to cities such as _____ (which is in the 250,000-500,000 population category), and _____ (which is in the 500,000-1 population million category). Slides were shown in lecture of each of these cities. Shreveport, Louisiana/Dayton, Ohio Iowa was the last state to have a majority of its population in urban areas, which occurred in the: 1960s Which province had the largest population increase (by percentage terms) between 2011 and 2016 (which is indicative of longer-term trends)? Alberta There are _____ US metro areas with populations of 1 million or more. 55 Since the 1950s, and especially during the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, many Americans left the more populated northeastern part of the country and headed for the _____, an amorphous term that encompasses the South, Texas, the Southwest, California, some parts of the Intermountain West, and even places like Portland (Oregon) and Seattle. Sunbelt The _____, when completed (in 1825), "bypassed" the Appalachian Mountain barrier in many ways. The Erie Canal From 1992 to 2009, and again after 2016, a sizeable number of people moved out of _____ and headed for other locations in the American West, but yet that state did not appreciably lose population because of _____. California/ international migration In North America there are roughly