Texas, still thought of as a rural state, is now 80 percent urban.

"They are pretty effective in controlling the small rural states."

Even teachers in rural states like Nebraska have students who use drugs, officials say.

It is a system more typical of rural, Southern states.

As the state level the League had mixed results, usually doing best in rural and southern states.

It is a rural state with a population of about 591,000, less than Milwaukee's.

Two-thirds of the committee's members are from heavily rural states.

Schools in these rural states, he said, more clearly viewed themselves as "places of learning, rather than social service agencies."

Only eight Democrats voted against the measure, all of them from largely rural states.

But heavily rural states were their undoing, particularly in the south, which has decided the national government for the past 14 years.