Stay or Go? The Quandary of the Rural Brain Drain
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America by sociologists Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas. Admitted urbanites whose original research agenda didn’t include a detour through the country, Carr and Kefalas undertook an ethnographic study of youth pathways to adulthood in a pseudonymous small Iowa town, Ellis. But if you didn’t read their confession...


