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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by axaxs on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:13PM (#16442899)
I don't have a solid citation, apologies. But remember 4 of the top 10 cities are in the, landwise, mostly uninhabited Texas and Arizona. It's not a stretch to drive out of the city and lose access to broadband. I'm in a top 30 city and absolutely driving 30 minutes away takes broadband off the plate...depending on direction(south and west do, north and east dont).
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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by IntronExon on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:25PM (#16442965)
That’s fair enough on the citation. I would point out that as you say, Texas and Arizona are heavily urbanized, and outside of that, very sparsely inhabited. TX having ~84% urban population, and AZ nearly 90%, that’s going to be hard to cover the other small percentage with broadband. Texas, despite being one of the “Big 8” ranks 32nd for average population density.

In other words rural TX and AZ are atypical.

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