Rural Texans reluctant to provide census data

Eric Aasen reports on lower census-return rates in rural parts of state:

Getting rural Texans to mail back their census forms is much tougher compared with their urban counterparts.


While 74 percent of Collin County residents mailed back their forms in 2000, the response rate was only 41 percent in Coke County in West Texas and just 39 percent in Zapata County in South Texas.