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Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America (1st Edition) by Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-8070-4238-2 / 0807042382 ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-4238-0 / 9780807042380 In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”; |