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Wilbur Zelinsky

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Wilbur Zelinsky was an American cultural and population geographer who lived from 1921 to 2013 and taught for much of his career at Pennsylvania State University. He formulated the mobility transition hypothesis, published in 1971, which relates changing patterns of migration and circulation to stages of demographic and social development. His broader scholarship examined cultural regions, settlement, ethnicity, religion, and the geographical character of the United States.

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