Tony Hillerman

" I have a theory not yet endorsed by any sociologist, he said. You city folks have so many people crowding you they are a bother. So you try to avoid them. We rural people don't have enough, so we're interested. We sort of collect them."
"You'll have to makeit a lot more complicated than that to get the sociologists to adopt it. Louisa said. But I know what you're driving at."