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Tickamyer, Ann, et al. Rural Poverty in the United States (2017) U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers in a changing world (1940) 1240 pp of articles by experts in agriculture and rural life online; Vidich, Arthur J., and Joseph Bensman. Small town in mass society; class, power, and religion in a rural community (1960), in upstate New York online
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consist of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what constitutes ...
In historiography, rural history is a field of study focusing on the history of societies in rural areas. At its inception, the field was based on the economic history of agriculture. Since the 1980s it has become increasingly influenced by social history and has diverged from the economic and technological focuses of " agricultural history ".
The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) [5] [6] resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings ...
Meanwhile, conservatives, based in the suburbs, the rural areas, and the Sunbelt railed against what they identified as the failures of liberal social programs, as well as their enormous expenses. This was a potent theme in the 1980 presidential race and the 1994 mid-term elections , when the Republicans captured the House of Representatives ...
A farm crisis is an American term for a time of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes.The Interwar farm crisis was an extended period of depressed agricultural incomes from the end of the First to the start of the Second World War.
Those rural areas were considered “the dark land.” While communication technology has advanced quite a bit in the last three decades, the investment wasn’t focused on rural Oklahoma. They ...
In the United States from the 1920s to the 1990s many ... history grew rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, ... and rural areas. [13] By the 1990s there was increased ...