The National Rural Studies Committee seeks to identify important rural problems and encourage scholarly work on such problems. This annual meeting focused on the relationships between rural poverty and race relations and between rural and urban problems. Individual papers are: (1) "The Rural South as Seen by a Historical Geographer," by Charles Aiken; (2) "Home Sweet Home: Perspectives on the Culture and Politics of Shelter," by Carol Stack; (3) "Interdependent Development: Evidence and Policy," by Edward Bergman; (4) "Persistent Low Income Areas in the United States: Some Conceptual Challenges," by David L. Brown and Mildred Warner; (5) "Rural People in Poverty: Persistent versus Temporary Poverty," by Peggy J. Ross and Elizabeth S. Morrissey; (6) "Down South: The Inferior Country?" by William Howarth; (7) "Halfway Home--How Do We Get the Rest of the Way?" by William Winter; (8) "The Land-Grant University and Economic Development," by Walter Washington; (9) "Public Education in the Rural South," by David L. Powe; (10) "The Delta Project: A Perspective for Social and Economic Research and Development," by Arthur G. Cosby; (11) "Traditional and Alternative Agriculture," by Chip Morgan; and (12) "Politics in a Small Delta Town," by Robert Gray. (SV)