But "the persistence of the cultural south does not require that southerners stay poor and rural," says John Shelton Reed, a sociologist.

但是“坚持南方文化并不是要南方人刻守贫穷，留在农村，”约翰·希尔顿·里德，一位社会学家说到。

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"When I look out over rural Nebraska and the Great Plains, I see it happen all the time, " says John Allen, a rural sociologist at the University of Nebraska.

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