When the Car Rewired Rural America

Before the car, rural America was a dense patchwork of farms, crossroads hamlets, and market towns. Travel was slow, deliberate, and social. Then the automobile, the interstate, and zoning laws flipped the entire system. We explore how the car made neighbors optional and what we lost — and gained — in the trade. Episode #622350 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/622350