Perhaps more important is the finding that not all types of expectations correlated strongly with wind energy attitudes.Expectations of impacts to social factors, environmental problems,and tax revenue were not as related to wind energy attitudes,when compared to strong correlations with economic benefits to the County, job creation, and the expectation that the turbines would not decrease the visual beauty of the area. Additionally,those with more positive wind attitudes expected less interference with wildlife, environmental benefits, decreases in energy prices,property values to increase, and tax benefits to the County. These correlations again suggest economic opportunity as the primary factor influencing wind energy attitudes in the study area. These findings support previous research in the Midwest and Great Plains regions, supporting the predominance of economic development in the support for utility-scale wind projects [40,54]. The relationship between visual impacts, motion, and economic beliefs has been linked to place attachment, place identity, and landscape utility,stressing the importance of geographic and cultural context in the analysis of support or opposition to energy projects [48,13,22]. In this agriculturally-intensive study area, utilizing the land for economic production has historically been a core value of residents who live there [34] and the population decline experienced in rural areas has placed importance on new sources of economic development [60].