nearly 68 percent of American homes were electrified. But, if you don't count farms, about 85 percent of Americans had electricity by the end of the 1920s.
And there's the rub. Rural communities, including farms, were far slower in adopting electricity than the rest of the country. Of the roughly 6.3 million American farms in 1922, only about 3% had electricity. It wasn't until 1935 that the U.S. government addressed this huge rural vs urban electric divide with the formation of the Rural Electrification Administration.
