This just in from the USDA on one of my favorite topics: Defining "Rural"

Almost as if they've been reading my blog . . . the USDA today released the latest issue of its online publication, Amber Waves, in which one of the features is titled, "Defining the 'Rural' in Rural America." John Cromartie and Shawn Bucholtz offer a sophisticated analysis there of the issue I've lately been pondering here.