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Six charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America

  • Written by Brian Thiede, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
imageThe divide is in the data.American Community Survey (ACS) 2011-2015 5 year estimates, Table S1810, CC BY

Editor’s note: We’ve all heard of the great divide between life in rural and urban America. But what are the factors that contribute to these differences? We asked sociologists, economists, geographers and historians to describe the...

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