Population loss in rural Arkansas: Lee County
Population loss as in major -- 50% or more. Source : Wikipedia ( Lee County , Marianna ) Marianna is the county seat of Lee County . P opulation loss by degrees: 80-89% , 70-79% , 60-69% , 50-59%. Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree: 8.4% - Lee County 22.0% - Arkansas 30.9% - U.S. Percentage of population 65 and older: 19.2% - Lee County 16.6% - Arkansas 15.6% - U.S. Lee County has voted for a Republican candidate for president just once -- in 1972, Richard Nixon . Lee County Library , Marianna Related reading: Widespread Racial Violence Persists in Eastern Arkansas Farming Area . ( The New York Times , 10/10/1971) MARIANNA, Ark.—A notion is going around, mostly in the North, that the race issue is fading away in the South. The people of eastern Arkansas know better. During the last year, a 50‐mile stretch of Arkansas's richest cotton and soybean country ac...