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Isn't American rural living uniquely spread out? In Europe and China for instance you'll have rural villages/towns that are surrounded by farmland. That kind of settlement can be served by public transit.
Japan as well. All around the world, rural areas are served by transit systems. Usually trains connecting towns and then buses operating within towns. Our rural areas are less concentrated, but not less dense overall. The old town centers still exist across most of the country and they could easily be reconnected to a good train network and get buses running. Most of these rural towns were built on railroads in the first place.
In some states - NY, PA, VA, CA - there are rural towns that still have good rail connections, and those places are much healthier economically and socially than their disconnected counterparts.
Every gray dot in this screenshot is a small, dense, rural village surrounded by farmland.