As a report from The Brookings Institute notes, “The digitization of American life is no longer striking ... Broadband service providers are leading rural communities’ renaissance.

A Smithsonian Institution exhibit on life in rural America is traveling ... Crossroads' explores how rural American communities changed in the 20th century," according to information from the ...

but the rural share would continue to drop for the rest of the twentieth century. Cities became the location of most of American life: politically, culturally, financially, and economically ...