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Cable crime shows explore rural America's underbelly

If network TV has taught us anything, it's that America's heart and soul reside in its small towns. Crime, we learned, was entirely urban, a social disease that festered in big cities. That was before Walter White took us into the New Mexico desert on AMC's Breaking Bad; before Raylan Givens, the Stetson-sporting lawman on FX's Justified, gave us a tour of the Kentucky trailer parks; before Detective Rustin "Rust" Cohle introduced us to a scarred Louisiana in HBO's True Detective.

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