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This is how my city friends determine our "rural-ness": we 
are 75 miles from the nearest Starbucks.

--Sage
Way Out in Texas

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:26:54 -0500
 Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> I have written on how the Census Bureau has made it 
> virtually  
> impossible to count ruralites versus urbanites. Here are 
> sidebar notes  
> from an article on the subject:
>
> • The share of the U.S. population considered rural 
> ranges from 17 to  
> 49 percent depending on the definition used.
> • Rural definitions can be based on administrative, 
> land-use, or  
> economic concepts, exhibiting considerable variation in 
> socio-economic  
> characteristics and well-being of the measured 
> population.
> • For research projects and economic development 
> programs alike, the  
> appropriate definition of rural will be that which meets 
> the goals of  
> the endeavor.
>
> I wonder how many of us might consider ourselves rural 
> whom  
> officialdom deems urban.
>
> From:
>
> Defining the “Rural” in Rural America
>
> The use of different definitions of rural by Federal 
> agencies reflects  
> the multidimensional qualities of rural America.
>
>
> http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June08/Features/RuralAmerica.htm
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