Is Rural America the New Home of Innovation?
Decades of disinvestment might have accidentally created the ideal building ground for the next American economic engine.
It’s too easy to write off rural and semi-rural parts of North America as “flyover country,” as if there is nothing of value happening there.
The Kauffman Foundation (itself HQ’d in the flyover state of Missouri) isn’t kidding around about this:
Stop trying to save Rural America.
Efforts to write it off as “disappearing” are complicated by the 60 million A…