I came across the phrase “brain drain” again in a book I’m reading about rural America. The book by Princeton professor Robert Wuthnow is called The Left Behind, Decline and Rage in Small-Town America. There’s a lot to talk about in the book and for me having grown up and then taught high school in rural communities, what he has to say makes a lot of sense. But, something about that phrase “brain drain” made me stop and think beyond his analysis. Wuthnow notes, as many

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