Showing posts with label rural life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rural life. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Inverted Social Norms

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Back the day rural areas were viewed positively, with high morality, great character, all the virtues (at least so my mother thought). Meanw...
Monday, October 03, 2022

The Big Sort

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[Note: I drafted this several days ago but didn't publish.  Then I wrote yesterdays post . Although I never added the links, I ] I'v...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

The Big Sort and Rural Migration

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 Can't find sources for my guesses.  This is the closest , showing the ratio of women to men in rural areas went from 99.8 in 1990 to 99...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Farmers and Internet

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 The post on the Rural Blog reports that 28 percent of farmers with over $500,000 gross income have poor or no internet service. More farm...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Changing Rural Population

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 Interesting post on Rural Blog  about the changing demographics of rural areas.  Briefly, for the first time ever total US population in a...
Friday, October 08, 2021

"Gifted Students" and Rural Schools

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 New York City is going to phase out its schools for gifted and talented students.  That stimulates discussion on social media, discussion w...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Gentrification: Disturbing a Way of Life

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 Liberals seem often to express sympathy for those adversely affected by gentrification.  Over the years I've seen articles in the Post ...
Monday, August 02, 2021

The Long Slow Progress of Direct Deposit

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Been 25 years or more since FSA started pushing direct deposit (it was just starting back in the mid 90's before I retired)  According t...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

A Different Perspective--Rebanks

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 James Rebanks is a skilled writer whose book I enjoyed.  He's got a new book for sale, already released in the UK and now in the US...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Polarization--A Speculation on Rural Rootedness

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Ezra Klein has a n ew book out on our polarized nation.  Bob Somerby sees polarization as the biggest issue we have. There's different ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Rural Fatties

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My mother would be sad at the news that world-wide obesity is more of a problem in rural areas than urban ones.  Her basic belief was in th...
Saturday, February 09, 2019

Why Blue America Is Blue--II

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See this tweet  on bankruptcies increasing from 2017 to 2018. And see this report  from Politico.  I'd predict some "emergenc...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Why Blue America Is Blue I

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From the Rural Blog : About 15 percent of Americans live in rural areas; the percentage has been declining for more than a century. The ...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Modern Loneliness--Brooks and Sasse

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Arthur Brooks has an op-ed in the Times on loneliness in modern times, partially keyed off Sen. Sasse's book.  (DA paragraph: Mr. Sas...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

When Are Farmers No Longer Farmers

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From a Congressional Research Service report on 2018 Farm Income Outlook comes  a table which I can't incorporate. You can access it ...
Saturday, November 03, 2018

Promising Book on Rural Consciousness

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May post more later, but just got Katherine Cramer's "The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

The Future Is Near: The Impact of Autonomous Trucks

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This piece at evonomics.com by Andrew Yang is distressing, and convincing. Perhaps the worst part is the impact on small businesses which s...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Chicken Feed (Sack) Dresses

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Slate has a post on a 2009 scholarly article about the use of chicken feed sacks to make clothing back in the day, my day as it happens. ...
Monday, June 26, 2017

The Big Sort: Rural Versus Non-Rural

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Here's a Wall Street Journal article on the effect of college education on rural youth (barely readable because of pay wall): how can y...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Newcomers in Our Midst

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Read this bit in a Blog for Rural America piece on inclusion "In some rural communities, a person who is not from the community but ...