because we would rather keep to ourselves, avoid social tension by escaping it, schedule encounters with friends, and happily travel alone in climate controlled and music injected glossy metal boxes" (McCreery 45). The promotion of individualism when the automobile was first introduced has ironically bred isolationism.
             The emergence of the automobile into the mainstream of American way of life, which took place early in the twentieth century, eliminated these limitations and caused rural populations to explode in number. In the early 1900's, the nation produced approximately four thousand automobiles, and by 1929, that number grew to 4.8 million (Leuchtenburg 186). At about that time, rural populations also increased. According to the United States Census Bureau, rural populations more than doubled between 1929 and 1940. (United States Census Bureau). This rate of increase is beli
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