I've never fully discounted a rural hit in the next attack. I do wonder how they decide where the money goes though.
I live in a very rural area- in fact so rural, it is considered a "frontier" county. Guess where the State of California plans to evacuate urban areas to in case of an urban WMD attack? "Have they given rural areas the resources to receive and handle a possible flood of refugees?"- should be the question, not why are we wasting any money on rural areas. Our entire County has only 43,000 people in 6,600 sq. miles. We would be quickly overwhelmed and under-staffed in an evacuation situation.