Rural America is depressing as fuck. All of it is dying. The young people leave. Both my parents are from very small towns. The house where my grandmother's brother lived is just unoccupied. Can't sell it. No reason to fix it up. It's not like there are homeless people or crackheads squatting there. It just sits, empty
There's no bigger blindspot among educated city dwellers than the plight of the rural poor. All the same jokes persist, yet those people are as disenfranchised as any other group in the country
There's no bigger blindspot among educated city dwellers than the plight of the rural poor. All the same jokes persist, yet those people are as disenfranchised as any other group in the country