Yes, but it is in two parts. You migrate to a place like Omaha or Des Moines from rural places like you said, but then after an education people traditionally

Yes, but it is in two parts. You migrate to a place like Omaha or Des Moines from rural places like you said, but then after an education people traditionally left those places for the even bigger cities like the Twin Cities, etc. That said, effort by various colleges and city governments has gone into the brain drain problem for years so the drain has been declining. You can see marketing campaigns like http://lifeisright.com/ http://lifeisright.com/ for various cities to try to promote staying put.