There's a HUGE urban/rural divide in the US. It affects everything from eating habits to gun ownership to proper care of the land.

The Lonely, Empty, Prairie Sky

In the midst of everywhere I know this place
as I know my own vice calling echoes up and down
the valley, as I know my eyes looking into a close-held
mirror, as my tongue knows the inside of my mouth.

I know the wind as intimately as I know love,
its mark and signature upon the fragile land,
and I know the smell of rain riding down the gale
across the hills, across the meadows, across the river

When seeping cold makes my bones
brittle inside my skin,
when relentless summer beats
my face with a golden hammer,
I am at home beneath the lonely, empty, prairie sky.
                                  --Joan Hoffman