Small Thriving Business In 'Heart Land And The Rural South Exodus'

Small Thriving Businesses Extinction Imagine walking down main street in a small town, you notice there are many unique stores in which you have never come across. After walking into countless stores you are starting to notice they all have one thing in common. What possibly could all these diverse stores have in common, they all have a 12” by 10” sign with white lettering and red background saying Help Wanted. In “ Heart Land and the Rural South Exodus” by Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas, you will see small thriving business’s are in danger. In this paper I will argue Carr and Kefalas persuade rural small-business owners to reach out to urban youth through use of statistics of comparison of urban an rural areas which business owners are

Small business owners need to use the comparison of employment rates within the rural and urban area. With the dramatic decrease of youth in rural areas, urban youths be aware of the decrease, there opportunity to get a job is at all time high. Carr and Kefalas persuade business owners to speak up and reach out to the urban youth. “ More than seven hundred rural counties that have lost 10 percent of their population since 1980” ( Carr and Kefalas 20). By the rural areas decreasing there population every year, the people are leaving due to job opportunities in the urban area. Creating it harder for urban youth to get a job, so by them getting the statistics knowledge of the youth leaving the rural areas they will be aware of the job opportunities in rural communities. One thing about rural areas which urban youth lack the knowledge of knowing it that we offer very unique things, no matter where you are you get the feeling of comfort, familiar, and warmness. As a entrepreneur to be successful lets take advantage of the unique things. Lets be outgoing, reach out to the urban teenagers to bring our businesses at high for employment. Business owners need to show how much rural area people are leaving to live in urban, show the statics of comparison to urban youth to bring them into the rural

Seek out an see what kind of opportunities there are to bring more people to the area. What does urban areas have that are making all the people want to live there. If it is needing to bring more entertainment, as a small business owner we need to be outgoing an want to keep the people in the area.“Young people have always left small towns to attend college, but by the early 1990’s there were more opportunities and more compelling reading to do than ever before” (Carr and Kefalas 24). We need to bring back the opportunities that we used to have, rural areas used to be so successful, but now they are going into extinction. Entrepreneurs need to look into the opportunities that they have surrounding them that they aren't taking advantage of that could possibly bring back all the seekers and achievers. Entertainment bring the community together, bringing more people to the town, and having more people in the workforce. There are so many opportunities that surround every rural community, we just need to look at every rural area in a critical