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These voters have an ideological opposition to public services, she argues, opposing their extension even when they themselves would benefit

It never occurs to liberals, who, often lacking a sense honor or integrity and respecting only themselves, that getting free stuff is not a 'benefit' but may in fact be detrimental in many ways, one of which is human dignity, and another is individual liberty.

The reason rural voters are particularly wary of free stuff may be that they are closer to nature and work with animals or have to deal with them much more than urban liberals, and as anyone who interacts with animals knows, offering food, water, shelter and gently treating them from a young age changes their behavior, and thus gives you power which you can use not just in a somewhat harmless way to tame them for companionship but also can be used in a controlling way to tame them in order to exploit them for work, milk, meat, or eggs, or even to entrap and kill wild ones, when they are annoying pests or when you want to use their fur or meat.

Providing free stuff always involves taking away some or all of a wild animal's liberty by creating anything from minor dependence as in the case of a bird feeder or water source, or major dependence, as in the domestication of animals to make them easier to handle, causing them to lose more and more of their survival skills and instincts while they unwittingly pick up habits and traits that are desired by humans the longer they are bred in captivity- until like bulldogs or sheep, the animal is fully domesticated and so deformed or genetically altered they actually need management to survive.

"It never occurs to liberals, who, often lacking a sense honor or integrity and respecting only themselves, that getting free stuff is not a 'benefit' but may in fact be detrimental in many ways, one of which is human dignity, and another is individual liberty. "

Yes!

Sometimes it can be as simple as not trusting the government and not wanting it to grow any more.

I've been playing with a theory that rural, and even suburban people rely more on their neighbors than they do "the system." Urban people rely on the system and may not have even met their neighbors.

When you depend on your neighbors, you must be responsible for your actions because the relationship could mean your survival. Not so much in the city.