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Originally Posted by freedomlover
I'm not arguing with you here. I do believe that the opportunities are moving toward more urban areas. Smaller towns are dying, smaller, family owned farms are becoming fewer and fewer. But this is exactly what I meant by mobility. More of our rural youth are going to college, vo-tech, trade schools, and are taking their educations to more urban areas. It is not that they don't have the same opportunities as urban youth, they are just choosing to move away from rural areas.
For example: There is a desparate need (opportunity) for medical personnel in rural areas. However, the money and prestige is better in urban areas, ergo they follow the money.
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Given that we have an all- volunteer- military( so that not even the threat of a draft touches other young Americans), you could certainly say that the President's war in Iraq- - - and it;s harm- - - has been disproportionately felt. If you live in a rural area, you are simply far more likely to know a casualty of the war than in most major metropolitian ares in the country. There is still a great number of our young who aren't searching for the bright light of metropolitian, if you will, (stay close to mom and dad ) and only enlist when it's a no other choice scenario.