Many small areas are equally in that same place.....it just goes with the facts of how our nation is now. Decaying communities are really not that uncommon....
I live in Pa. and we have them throughout the state....smaller communities are a dying breed.....
Yes, Cairo is a small town that is dying and that’s not an uncommon thing. But Cairo, because of racial strife in the 60s-70s kind of killed itself. In that, it is different than say some town that’s been dwindling since the shoe factory shut down. (A common thing in these parts).