The truth is that when this nation chose to eliminate four million farmers (with their families, hired help, buildings, and boundaries) on the advice of the colleges of agriculture, the agricultural bureaucracy, and the agribusiness corporations, it committed a sort of cultural genocide.
Um… Entirely incorrect. There is a popular and bizarre sleight of hand where “rural” is used to mean white. Indian reservations and most counties along the Mississippi River immediately come to mind as examples of objectively rural counties which are nowhere near 85% white but face all the economic issues listed in the article. Reactionary Settlers though