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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3647179" data-attributes="member: 39593">Depends on just how average the average person is, studies often create a false average as a result of mixing seperated demographics that should have been examined separatelyThe figures are skewed as a result of the way they mixed very different demographics.  Essentially they create a false picture when they average together very different populations.  There are essentially two different Americas, urban and rural America.  Urban America has a very large population and when included into an overall average absorbs significant portions of the rural figure creating an artificially deflated per-capita figure.  This is an exaggeration from both sides.  The key is mixing a pair of very different demographics has produced an eroneous result.  Urban America has the majority of the population but it's also a comparatively small portion of the land mass of America.  So you have the huge population of a small region overshadowing the smaller population which makes up the vast majority of the land area.  Outside those metropolitan areas driving 30 to 40 miles each way to work is common, with an hour or so to any nearby city large enough to have movies, malls, etc.  And in the rural areas there's no alternative to driving those distances, and the source of the conflict over these things.  One part is so divorced from the other they don't realize what things are like there.</blockquote>

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