How did the rural areas suffer in the 50's?

In 1953, there were 54 million rural people in the United States, 36 percent of the U.S. total. At that time, rural areas were open country and towns of under 2,500 people outside of urbanized areas. Twenty-three million of that 54 million or 43 percent lived on farms. So they had a lack of healthcare

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