{"id":5281,"date":"2025-12-10T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/no-safe-ground-brant-explains-cost-of-poverty-in-appalachias-flood-zones-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:21:30","slug":"article-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/article-in-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Members Publish Article in The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5281\" data-postid=\"5281\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5281 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_eorn070 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_ruk0702 first\">\n                    <!-- module fancy heading -->\n<div  class=\"module module-fancy-heading tb_j0h4777 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <h1 class=\"fancy-heading\">\n    <span class=\"main-head tf_block\">\n                    RSS Members Publish Article in The Conversation            <\/span>\n\n    \n    <span class=\"sub-head tf_block tf_rel\">\n                                <\/span>\n    <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module fancy heading -->\n<!-- Breadcrumbs module -->\n<div  class=\"module module-breadcrumbs tb_vif2444 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"tbp_breadcrumb_trail\"><ul class=\"tbp_trail_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><meta name=\"numberOfItems\" content=\"1\" \/><meta name=\"itemListOrder\" content=\"Ascending\" \/><li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\" class=\"tbp_trail_item tbp_trail_end\"><a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/\" rel=\"home\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><!-- \/Breadcrumbs module -->\n<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_d1wl036   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"667\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5283 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-1024x768-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Old-Barn-Penn-Valley-Centre-County-2018-11-03-11-scaled-1-1024x768-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Shannon Monnat<\/strong> (Syracuse University) and <strong>Tim Slack<\/strong> (Louisiana State University) recently published an article in The Conversation titled &#8220;6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong.&#8221; 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