Huge obvious causality issues here, no? Did Clarksburg, W. Va. go populist because it lost population, or did it lose population because it lost its glass factory? Latter seems more likely. Authors don't convince that "population" has *any* independent effect https://t.co/3wKXFs6KPQ

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