10 Feb 2003
Vanishing Heartland
This is an interesting link:

The dwindling heartland: America's new frontier. From Lebanon, Kan., a window into the vanishing heartland. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]

The trends described so well here are slowly creeping East as well - the country seat of Boone County, Indiana (I live in Thorntown) is coincidentially named 'Lebanon'. Thorntown still has a grocery and a hardware store, a bank and a diner, but other towns here have fared poorly. In fact, Indiana lost representation in the House after the 2000 census. More of my urban collegues need to be aware of this.

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