Source: WRAL, 1/27/19

EDITOR'S NOTE: Leslie Boney is director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at N.C. State University. The Emerging Issues Forum, “Reconnecting Rural and Urban,” will take place February 11 in Raleigh.
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Last year, N.C. State’s Institute for Emerging Issues sent a survey to more than 31,000 people across the state asking what they consider the biggest problem facing North Carolina. The number one answer: “The rural-urban divide.” That’s both exciting and depressing. Exciting because that answer came from residents in both rural and urban regions, which means that no one actually wants this divide. Wherever they live, North Carolinians agree that we need to move forward as one state.

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