[lbo-talk] Middle America may go sour over Iraq

[Doug Henwood]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> Much of America is most likely suburban rather than urban or rural.

Well yeah; about 50% of the pop. But suburbs are parts of  
metropolitan areas, and about 75% of the US pop lives in metro areas.  
The trope that so annoys me is that rural America is "real" and the  
rest is, presumably, unreal.