Rural America on the Mend, Says USDA

Much ado has been made over President-elect Donald Trump’s overwhelming success in courting rural American voters during his run for the White House. Trump’s election-night dominance in middle America has pushed the narrative that forgotten and economically eroding corners of the country turned out en masse to reject establishment politics and the liberal ideals more prominent in the country’s major cities. And, indeed, the steady decline of rural and exurban communities has been well documented in recent years.