Culture of the United States

This article very generally discusses the customs and culture of the United States; for the "culture" of the United States, see arts and entertainment in the United States.

Housing

Immediately after World War II, Americans began living in increasing

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numbers in the suburbs, belts around major cities with

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higher density than rural areas, but much lower than urban areas. This move has been attributed to many factors such as the automobile, the availability

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Rural - Urban

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of large tracts of land, the increasing violence in urban centers (see white flight),

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and the cheapness of housing. These new single-family houses were usually one or two stories tall, and often were part of large tracts of homes built by a single developer.

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The resulting low-density development has been given the pejorative label "suburban sprawl."

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