My Definition Of Rural America

Coming from a populated city and area I was intrigued at the opportunity to learn about something that would be completely new to me. I grew up barely outside of Rochester Minnesota, which is an hour and a half south of the cities. Rochester, as I see it, is a city within a rural area. My definition and your definition of rural are two completely different things. Thus, when you first asked us to describe three words that we thought of when we heard the term rural I put down: Farm, Farmer, and Corn. Up to that moment that is all I really thought of when it came to rural. I think this can be traced back to the towns surrounding Rochester. This brings me back to my AP Geography class that I took as a sophomore and the idea of settlement hierarchy. With Rochester being a smaller city, we had plenty of towns and villages surrounding us. Each day on my way to school I would see rows of corn and thought that is what rural America is like. Oh boy was I wrong. …show more content…
The one thing that made me somewhat angry was rural America was far behind urban America when it came to percentage of people in the workforce. I see rural America as the backbone of our nation and if rural America is weak, we will have a weak nation. For the next week we were supposed to look up data when it came to our county, mine being Cherry County Nebraska. I really thought this was a fun and interesting activity despite my poor grade on it. I think the part where I had the most fun would be looking up fun facts and other information that we wrote on the backside. I learned that there is one person per square mile. I think one way for me to have more fun is assign things like this more