The second block lives outside cities, grows food, makes stuff, fixes stuff, owns a variety of vehicles, and often owns many weapons, some of considerable firepower.
If you think rural America would exist in any form without massive government subsidies taken from the more populous areas, you are misinformed. (and I say this as a proud product of rural America)
Of course, neither area could function without the other, but characterize rural areas as anything approaching self-sufficient is a fantasy.