Where did you get that statistic? Do some research.
Virginia example population = 7 Million. Data here
1 Virginia Beach city, Virginia Beach city 425,257 2 Norfolk city, Norfolk city 234,403 3 Chesapeake city, Chesapeake city 199,184 4 Richmond city, Richmond city 197,790 5 Arlington CDP, Arlington County 189,453 6 Newport News city, Newport News city 180,150 7 Hampton city, Hampton city 146,437 8 Alexandria city, Alexandria city 128,283 9 Portsmouth city, Portsmouth city 100,565Out of a population of 7,000,000 only 2.5 million live in major population centers. Add 1 million for suburban NoVa. The majority live in the rural small town areas.
Do some research before embarrassing yourself on this forum.
suburbs and small towns are not rural. Do you know how many farmers there are in america now days? It’s about one to two million. TOTAL. out of 350 million.
btw, population data on american cities is misleading. They only count the numbers of people inside the city limits OF THAT PARTICULAR COUNTY.