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user-inactivated  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why government agencies should move from DC to the Midwest

    The United States and as agriculture has become streamlined and industrialized, people have been leaving for urban areas for a number of reasons

We're pumping nitrates into the ground at an amazing rate. I got signs warning me not to eat the catch from the local river.

    A large percentage of them are in The Great Plains.

The ones that survive are the ones they plowed the interstate through. Everything else is dead.

My grandparents lived on my grandma's family land out near Bouge. I like the people out there, but they won't be coming back. Just like the rail lines.

    see some kind of weird outlier

Oasis among the thistles.

Some of 'em even have art scenes.