Defining Regions for Rural America
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shape how we think. Regional definitions color the way we understand rural America, rural change, and rural prospects. Regional definitions trigger financial flows and program eligibility. At issue is not whether to opt into the region idea. We readily create regions to suit the human purposes of discovering order, appraising conditions, exercising control, prescribing change, and expressing ideals (Guttenberg).
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