"The historic downtown has a park with a bandstand for summer concerts, and a spot to taste the spring waters that attracted early settlers. But across Main Street sits one vacant storefront after the next."This could be described as a corporate vs individual economic divide. Those empty storefronts in small towns used to hold businesses owned and operated by local people. Those are mostly gone and the buildings are empty because we now operate in a corporate business environment. Most businesses now are sheet-metal buildings on the edge of town, owned by large, out-of-town corporations who really don't care about local communities,.. well,... as long as the people living there send a decent portion of their government-supplied checks back to the corporate owners. The rural areas are being "mined" for their wealth.
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