Rural America Analysis

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In Rural America as a Symbol of American Values, John R. Logan talks about America being a “historical museum” because of the boundaries of rural areas are changing. People are leaving rural areas and heading to more urban areas. “With only a quarter of Americans living in nonmetro areas (John page1)”. This is taking the majority of the population and putting them into more metro areas that create a lower population that is depleting the population of society in nonmetro areas. This is creating a ghost town for these areas that use to hold the majority of the population.
Society is changing and making these moves to metro areas has made rural America not less valued but maybe more valued with its disappearance it has become a more of a nostalgic quality (John page1). With beauty that rural areas provide have not disappeared but more of a memory that we can drive down a back road to be able to remember what society use to be. This is what John R. Logan is trying to say with rural America being a “historical museum” it is a time capsule that we can look back on a see. John R. Logan even says “ we visit the countryside mostly as tourists, rarely as residents conducting normal errands and chores. Our contact is a rare car ride on the back roads, a weekend in the Amish country, where we sense that something important has been …show more content…

From meat to the liquid that we use to fill our vehicles are all made out of corn. The beginning of corn starts in the fields of rural America. This puts a big value on rural society to produce these products that we use every day. The fact that American culture has set this up because of our diets and the way we use our vehicles is the reason rural areas are superior to urban areas. We also use rural areas as dumping grounds for the waste of bigger cities. This is just another fact why rural areas are needed so

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