I'm getting really sick of some of the implications in articles like this one from Jezebel, in particular the conceit that small towns and rural areas constitute "real" America.
Let's set the record straight: only 16% of Americans now live in rural areas. The vast majority of us live in cities and suburbs.
Furthermore, as cute as David Foster Wallace's comment about 90% of Americans living in flyover country, he was wrong about that, too. The West Coast alone contains 49 million people; the much larger East Coast holds 112 million people, or about 36% of the population on its own. Put those together, and you have over half of the US living on the coasts.
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The good people of Dallas might be surprised to be informed that the Texas State Fair is in rural America.
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