It includes large cosmopolitan cities, small rural towns and the middle of nowhere.
South of Indianapolis, the state feels more like Kentucky and the old South, its hilly landscape dotted with livestock, roadside churches and small rural towns such as Martinsville, where, one could reasonably estimate, tattoos outnumber people.
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In addition to the President's opening and closing remarks, the day included breakout-sessions moderated by senior administration officials that covered topics ranging from initiatives on broadband access and renewable energy to job creation in small, rural towns nationwide.
Just ask Sam Walton who sold necessities at low prices to those in small towns and rural communities.
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People in small towns and rural areas are becoming especially dissatisfied with their lives, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says.
We know that there are people who think that for America to get ahead, small towns and rural communities have to be left behind.
As for family values, America's small towns and rural havens suffer from higher rates of marital breakdown and illegitimate births than the degenerate big cities.
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Small towns and rural communities have been hit especially hard.
As opposed to gentry politics, whose bastions lay in fashionable urban districts and college towns, Truman-style democracy reached into the vast suburban dreamscape--even into small towns and rural areas.
But Kaveh Afrasiabi, a political scientist who supports Ahmadinejad, said the incumbent's widespread support in rural areas and small towns was the reason for his victory.
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Ahmadinejad is "populist" who favors "redistributive justice" and "pays keen attention" to rural areas and small towns, where 75 percent of Iran's voters live, Afrasiabi said.
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Meatpacking companies have responded to international competition by shifting their operations from old industrial cities, with their heavily unionised workforces and restrictive practices, to rural areas and small towns.
People in rural areas and small towns don't pay for water, and it's only in the bigger cities that residents--those who are on the meter and aren't stealing water--pay for what they use.
While the withdrawal of governmental subsidies can halt car sales growth in rural areas and small towns, government regulation of license plate registration will deal a huge blow to car sales in urban areas.
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We confronted this crisis head on, and we did it by implementing a comprehensive strategy to stabilize the key sectors that are behind the down turn, while investing deeply in trying to jump start jobs and investments, particularly -- not only in big cities, but also in rural America, in small towns.
None of this, of course, helps rural North Dakota, and many small farming towns are dying.
Rothman also started running training sessions for his 325 small stores, many in rural, blue-collar towns like Secaucus, N.
That's why I've been fighting to create millions of new jobs in clean energy and rebuilding our infrastructure, jobs to come to all of our states, and urban and rural areas, and suburban communities and small towns.
Last week the Obama campaign was touring rural Missouri in an RV, holding events in small towns like Willard.
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