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There are 3.8 million Texans living in rural areas. By supporting our Rural Reporting Project, you help us give them a voice. - Texas has the largest rural population of any state: 3.8 million people. Many problems are the same as those in the cities: stagnant wages, income inequality, health-care woes, racial conflicts. But rural Texas faces a set of issues all its own, including stagnant or declining populations, economic dislocations from globalization and trade, a severe shortage of primary care physicians, land fragmentation, water scarcity and myriad agricultural challenges that bar ...

Read More ely register with city-dwellers.The Texas Observer is one of the only publications — not just in the state of Texas, but in the entire nation — with a staff writer dedicated to covering rural populations. As newspapers shutter their doors and those that remain purge staff, fewer and fewer can afford to send reporter

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