The Rural Mosaic: Navigating America’s Dual Economic Realities
To analyze the American landscape is to confront a fundamental spatial paradox: the territory classified as “Non-Metropolitan” covers 97% of the nation’s landmass but supports only 14% to 20% of its population. For the Senior Rural Economic Geographer, this landscape is not a monolith of decline; it is a complex “Rural Mosaic” defined by a…
