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The problem is that urban values can tilt people democrat. And there are a lot more urban people than rural people.

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If you live in the city, you are as dependent on government as a newborn to mother. You walk to work on concrete paved by the city and drive on streets by the same. To drink or to wash, you get your water from pipes, not out of the ground or from clouds. You need to eat, you pull your food off a shelf, not off of the land. When you work, you don’t improve the world around you, you only have agreements to exchange knowledge or service for money. You don’t truly produce or transform anything, if you live the city life, more than likely broker in something intangible, like information or the exchange of commodities (that you never touch).

City values = dependancy

What works for rural areas doesn't work for the urban areas, and what works for the urban areas doesn't work for the rural areas. For example, a ban on keeping pigs in your backyard, or a ban on discharging firearms in your backyard, makes a lot of sense in an urban area, where your neighbors are all right on top of you, and these sorts of activities are a nuisance or actually put your neighbors at risk. Thus, for the most part, these sorts of rules are perfectly reasonable. In a rural area, these sorts of rules have no logical basis.

But here's the rub: People usually vote in state and federal elections with the same philosophy that they apply in local elections - more authoritarian (urban), or more libertarian (rural).

But this is not appropriate, because authoritarian control at the state and federal level actually prevents both urban and rural citizens from reaching solutions that work best for them. An urban dweller may reasonably vote for the Democrat who will keep farm animals out of town, punish the discharge of firearms within city limits, etc. because these are reasonable solutions to problems in his city. But he acts unreasonably when he votes for the same sort of control at the state or federal level, because these may not be reasonable solutions for other urban areas, and are certainly not reasonable solutions for rural areas.

A reasoning man should never vote to increase government control at the higher levels because in doing so he presumes that what works for him, in his particular circumstances, must be right for all citizens of his state or country.