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LeAlan Marvin Jones (born May 8, 1979) is an American journalist who lives in Chicago's South Shore. His radio documentaries have received critical acclaim and numerous awards. Jones was the Green Party 's 2010 nominee for United States Senate from Illinois .
In 1890 65% of the national population, or 36 million people, lived in rural areas. Of these 2.7 million lived in 13,000 towns of less than 2500 people. and 36 million --mostly farmers--lived in open country. In 1920 the urban population reached 54 million, or 51% while rural America had 52 million or 49%. [5]
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 ...
The Daily Yonder looks at "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America," in which Colby College political scientists Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea set out to ...
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 ".
Agricultural History (2004): 34-49. online; Jones, Thomas B., and Olaf F. Larson. "A National Survey of Opinions on Country Life in America: The Unpublished Data from the Roosevelt Commission on Country Life (1908)." (ERIC, 1975). online; Osterud, Grey. "Farm Crisis and Rural Revitalization in South-Central New York during the Early Twentieth ...
The term heartland often invokes imagery of rural areas, such as this wheat field in Kansas. Iowa terrain. The heartland, when referring to a cultural region of the United States, is the central land area of the country, [1] usually the Midwestern United States [2] or the states that do not border the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, [3] associated with mainstream or traditional values, such as ...
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