1. See C. Beale , The Revival ofPopulation Growth in Nonmetropolitan America (Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1975); P. Morrison , Rural Renaissance in America? The Revival of Population Growth in Remote Areas (Population Reference Bureau , Washington, D.C., 1976); C. J. Tucker , Demography 13 , 435 ( 1976 ); B. J. L. Berry and D. Dahmann, Population Redistribution in the United States in the 1970s (National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1977); J. M. Wardwell, Rural Sociol. 42, 156 (1977).
2. In this article "metropolitan" refers to Standard Metropolitan Statistical areas (SMSA's) or to New England County Metropolitan Areas (NECMA's). In New England the basic units for constructing SMSA's are towns and cities rather than counties but we have used the NECMA scheme which employs whole counties.
3. C. Taeuber , Science 176 , 773 ( 1972 ).
4. L. Long and D. DeAre Migration to Nonmetropolitan Areas: Appraising the Trend and Reasons for Moving (Government Printing Office Washrngton D.C. 1980) pp. 3-8.
5. An issue in examining the relation between size and growth in the metropolitan context is whether to use the SMSA's and NECMA's shown in