I am fascinated and horrified by the entirety of what is happening to the United States, but for both life and research reasons, I am especially interested in how this is all playing out in the rural West, which is usually too far for the...
rural america
As I've stated on the grave series, I spent the last week in the lower Midwest, specifically Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. I am going to have a series of.
The questions around economic development in rural America are deeply complex. A few facts. First, rural America has been in a decades-long economic and population decline. In some areas, such.
I've spent more than my share of time in American rural communities, both in terms of studying them for my logging book, living in east Tennessee and northern New Mexico, teaching for a year in Ohio, and in my time in small-town remote Pennsylvania off...
This profile of how Dollar General fills the shopping niche of the nation's permanent rural underclass should be sobering. Dollar General’s sales per square foot have risen steadily in recent.
Michelle Wilde Anderson has an outstanding essay that discusses how Trump and Republicans are returning to the "rule of capture" to fleece poor rural communities out of the natural resources..
If you only read the New York Times and listen to NPR, you would be sure that the only rural people in America are white. After all, hasn't every rural white in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin been interviewed since November 8 about why they voted...