People leave rural America. not because they want to. but because they are being forced out. They leave because the " wide open spaces" are virtually barren of opportunity. A man cannot make a living. so he packs his belongings and his family and goes to the citywhere. untrained in job skills and unprepared for urban lifehe trades rural poverty for urban poverty. . He lives in a squalid. bulging. urban ghetto. and has lots of neighbors and little opportunityalmost as little as he had on the farm. This ruraltourban migrant may be Negro. he may be Mexican American. he may be whitebut he is always poor. And. Mr.