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After a recent drive through Cairo, Illinois (article forthcoming), and seeing the effects of decades of racial segregation and violence, and then economic decline and population loss, I wondered what other major and minor cities in the United States has experienced such steep and dramatic losses? Besides Cairo, Detroit and Wheeling, I asked my Facebook readers of other examples.

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I had to travel to Virginia for a conference and decided to stop at two historical sites in West Virginia: Weston State Hospital and Sweet Springs Resort.

With Respects to The Old Hickory
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