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100 years of change: U.S. county population patterns 1900-2000, Part 2.  R. SCHULTZ, E. HENNING, B. ANYZESKI, and M. BROKER. Department of Geography and Geology, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL 33431.  Cartographic display and statistical associations of socio-economic and demographic characteristics of U.S. counties over the past century.  The ‘emptying-out’ of the U.S. heartland, the growth of the periphery, the concentration of the elderly, and other broad socio-economic and demographic spatial patterns and their associations are identified and examined.  Causal hypotheses are tested and future trends suggested.