Is Rural America The New Inner City?

America’s countryside is dying, and in a meaningful, measurable way.

Whether you look at median income or per capita income, the poorest places in the nation are rural and they are overwhelmingly white.

Steven Conn, Contributor W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

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