“Americans live in cities and metropolitan suburbs, but they say they prefer farms and small towns...Rural images and supposed rural values continue to hold popular appeal...It seems to make no difference that our ideas of what constitutes rural life and the nature of rural values comes largely from the urban-based mass media...Advertisements for everything from cereal to cars rely heavily on a Norman Rockwell nostalgia filled with friendly “down-home” folks.” (94)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)