And people in those rural parts of the State will then be victimized by the urban pols pitching their caged rats to vote for bills that rip off the country people.
Your best bet, after North Korean or Chinese "urban renewal", is the residual protection afforded you by living in another State. As people realize what these Communist despots have in mind, they'll find the States to be once again the gristly, resistant backbone of the opposition. The $64,000 question is whether Abraham Lincoln broke too much in 1865.
I feel very blessed to live in South Carolina, a largely rural state.
Lincoln’s destruction of the Treasonous Slavers has nothing to do with this issue.