Hollowing Out the Middle - The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America, by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas

"The sharpest insight in ‘Hollowing Out the Middle’ is that ‘small towns play an unwitting role in their own decline’ by inculcating, in school and at home, the belief that fulfilling one’s promise means leaving for the city lights or the manicured suburbs…[it] is a worthy contribution to a conversation we desperately need to have…"