Author Topic: The real, surprisingly comforting, reason rural America is "doomed to decline"  (Read 284 times)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/24/real-surprisingly-comforting-reason-rural-america-is-doomed-decline/

Short version: it's not so much that it's declining, it's that once a rural area has enough success to grow, it's reclassified as part of a metro area. All in all, a surprisingly decent read from a paper that hasn't had a lot of those for a while.
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