It cuts both ways. I live in a rural area, have so for years. Also many years in NYC. Those who only know the country haven't a clue about the opposite side of the coin.
That's like saying if a person is not a bath house-hopping homosexual, then they can't make an informed judgement about homosexual anal sex.
A conservative Christian, for example, knows enough about this degenerate from of sex to be repelled and disgusted by it, without having to engage in it.
The same goes with those that live in the country or suburbs. We read and hear enough about the crime, corruption, and and other negative effects of liberal "leadership" in the inner-cities, that we want NO PART of it, and anything that comes out of it. Including your boy, liberal RINO-rudy. Many of us are just as repelled and disgusted with the prospect of him as the leader of the entire country, as we are hillary being President.
The Republican party CAN do better, and it MUST if this nation is to survive with any resemblence to what the founders envisioned.