Agree. We are becoming more urbanized regardless of where in the country you live. However, there are other factors, especially in our major cities, that are causing people to flee the cities. Crime, poor schools, high taxes, cost of living, and other factors that affect the quality of life have begun to spark a move out of the cities and into the suburbs and rural areas.
Technology has also had an impact as more people can work remotely. This impacts small businesses that used to be supported by office workers.
And then there are political factors as blue states and cities become more unlivable.
Here's my proof that ex-slaves got their "40 acres and a mule":
The later half of the 19th Century saw a huge increase in cotton product. Far more than the antebellum years. This was before the age of mechanization and new cotton lands in the desert Southwest.
Almost all of the 19th century post Civil War cotton comes from sharecroppers, white and black. Note when the "area" (black line) of cotton grew in the 1920s. That was due mainly to Arizona and California irrigation. Once post WWII mechanization occurs, the area of cotton goes way down, but output remains steady.