Legal Ruralism
Monday, September 26, 2016

Rural women in India pursuing urban dreams

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Ellen Barry reported yesterday in the New York Times on a specific type of rural-to-urban migration in India--that of young women moving t...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

"Penthouse Populist" in U.S. News & World Report re Trump's appeal to the rural poor

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Joe Williams reports this week in U.S. News & World Report under the headline, " Penthouse Populist:  Why the rural poor love Don...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

More agricultural crime, this time in the pot biz

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Two recent stories, one a feature and one breaking news, have highlighted the problem of human trafficking, sexual assault, and other ways w...
Monday, September 19, 2016

How rural America fared economically in 2015

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A few days ago, media were abuzz with the good news of the 2015 economic data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 13.  In short,...
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

On organized crime as agricultural crime in Italy

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NPR ran this story yesterday by Christopher Livesay, headlined, "'Tough Guy' Farmers Stand Up to Italian Mafia--and Win."...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

On being a public defender in rural Louisiana

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Here's a story in The Guardian today, about the sole public defender, Rhonda Covington, who serves  East and West Feliciana parishes in...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

More on "white trash" and rurality in the context of this campaign season

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The media continues to devote significant coverage to poor and working class white voters and their inclinations this election season.  Yes...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Rural prison building boom evolves into rural jail expansion boom?

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That seems to be the second headline of the NYTimes Upshot story that I wrote about here  regarding the fact that small-population countie...
Monday, September 5, 2016

On the lack of geographic (and other) diversity on the U.S. Supreme Court

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Adam Liptak writes in the New York Times today about the "striking lack of diversity" among the eight justices who currently com...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

Low-population counties sending people to prison at higher rates than cities

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That was the basic headline (one of them, anyway) in the Upshot section of the New York Times a few days ago, and that news seemed to surp...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Compelling report on rural-urban economic differences in Colorado--and their impact on the 2016 election

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The Associated Press reported an excellent (if also somewhat depressing) feature story a few days ago under the headline, "Divided Ame...
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