Let’s talk about the Dirty ’30s and a similar urban/rural divide I see today.
A lot of rural and small town areas of the United States suffer today, though not to the degree they did in the 1930s. The issues now include lack of jobs and opportunity, opioid addiction, and an economy that leaves people behind — a stark difference to the near-starvation faced on the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl. I see a lot of parallels to today, though.