Only eight Democrats voted against the measure, all of them from largely rural states.

Two-thirds of the committee's members are from heavily rural states.

"They are pretty effective in controlling the small rural states."

As the state level the League had mixed results, usually doing best in rural and southern states.

Even teachers in rural states like Nebraska have students who use drugs, officials say.

Schools in these rural states, he said, more clearly viewed themselves as "places of learning, rather than social service agencies."

It is a system more typical of rural, Southern states.

Texas, still thought of as a rural state, is now 80 percent urban.

But South Carolina, with 41.4 percent, and several other rural states were also high.

It is a rural state with a population of about 591,000, less than Milwaukee's.