As rural Americans we must see ourselves as part of the nation's diversity

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In the age of scarcity (for many) and excess (for the few), the language and policies of diversity become zero-sum. What another gets, you lose, so goes the polarized thinking that has turned our public square into a fever swamp of resentments and recriminations.

For too many rural Americans, the term diversity is syn…