Three RSS Members Quoted in Newsweek on the Future of Rural America
RSS members Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University), Ken Johnson (University of New Hampshire), and Lisa Pruitt (UC Davis) provided comment for a recent Newsweek article on the American Communities Project (ACP) called “Rural America Feels Differently About The Future.” The ACP survey’s goal is to “understand the different worlds that people in the United States call their homes.” As the article notes, there is not one rural America, but instead several groups within the demographic, each of which faces differing challenges and has differing views—something the survey shows. Rural communities are not universally conservative or progressive and have a variety of concerns and priorities. Quotes from Monnat, Johnson, and Pruitt leverage their expertise in studying rural communities to augment the description of the survey results.