[Travis McGee]

That's right, and that select few are no longer living in Povertyville Mississippi. The rest of Povertyville is still there. Reed's point is that in ages past, that bright local would have run a local hardware store, or been a local teacher. Now, he's gone.

[FITZ]

To a point I think some of this is true --- but the premise is that this didn't happen in the past and I think it probably always did. You can watch the Jerry Springer show and believe that a lot of behaviors and relationships are the result of being at the same IQ level.