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77. Ghettos are created by economics and/or politics. Appalachia is/was also a ghetto.

Sharon Zukin explains that through these reasons, society rationalizes the term "bad neighborhoods." Zukin stresses that these circumstances are largely related to, "racial concentration, residential abandonment, and deconstitution and reconstitution of communal institutions." [18][34] Many scholars diagnose this poorly facilitated and fragmented view of the United States as the "age of extremes." This term argues that inequalities of wealth and power reinforce spatial separation; for example, the growth of gated communities can be interconnected with the continued ghettoization of the poor.[19]

The term rural ghetto was coined by Osha Gray Davidson in the book Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto and is used to describe the influx of poverty and neglect in the small towns of Midwestern and Southeastern United States that occurs. [1]

Some of the trends driving the rural ghetto phenomenon:[original research?]

-A speculation-driven bubble in land prices.
-A push by agricultural officials to have farmers produce as much grain as possible, the "fence row to fence row" mandate.
-The bank crisis, partially caused by banks pushing too-easy-to-get credit on both farm and non-farm businesses.
-The decline in the number of non-farm jobs and the increase of low-paying service-sector jobs.
-The opening of large malls on the outskirts of towns.
-Reagan-era reduction in farm aid to states, cities and towns when aid was most needed.

Also to note, many Indian Reservations, home to Native Americans such as Pine Ridge and Standing Rock, South Dakota, and Hispanic-majority farm towns known as colonias (see also barrio), most notably in South Texas and Central California, are referred to as "rural ghettos." Often these areas are isolated geographically from main economic centers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_ghetto