Once upon a time, there was the idea that three young artists could document the life of a whole state. Today, there's proof.

Rural America sends a disproportionate number of people into the military. Their story is told in the new movie Where Soldiers Come From. The film follows kids who graduate from high school in a small town in the U.P., join the military and go to Afghanistan. It's a story about and made by people from rural America.

Guns and gun-ownership have gotten mixed up in rural politics, but what the Sam Hill are folks really aiming at?

Joe Bageant wrote about rednecks like they mattered. They were his people — poor, stubborn, hard-working and misunderstood by too many.