The political divide in this country is not between the rich and poor (the Democrats have at least as many billionaires as the Republicans) or between races (Democrats have at least as many racists) or even geographic. The political divide is between urban and rural.
You can confirm this by looking at a county by county map of any of the past several Presidential elections. The nation appears as a sea of red with small islands of deep blue scattered throughout the country. Liberalism is both a cause and effect of living in a large city.
If you choose to live in a large city, you want and need your government to provide you with a long list of basics for survival - everything from utilities to protection to transportation. If you choose to live in rural America, you neither want or need a lot of government services. You have a septic system for sewer, a well for water, and the police or an ambulance are up to an hour away.
For example, if you live in NYC you probably do not own a car, may not know anyone who owns a car, and cannot understand why anyone would want to. If you want to go to the store for groceries, you walk, take the subway or maybe a cab and carry a bag home with you. If you live in rural America, walking to the store for groceries is not an option. The closest store is probably 10 to 20 miles away. There is no mass transit because the population density is far too low. So once a week or once a month you make a trip to the nearest Walmart and haul back a truckload of supplies. Now thanks to the Interweb, you probably get a UPS truck coming by every week (assuming that you have dial up Internet access).
Similarly, if you live in NYC and someone breaks into your apartment in the middle of the night, the correct response is (1) barricade yourself in an interior room, (2) call 911, (3) scream “I have called the police, go away” and (4) hope that the police get there before you are raped and killed. You do not own a gun and would be afraid to use one if you did since if you miss you could hit someone in the neighboring apartment and whether you hit or miss you would be arrested for illegally owning and using a gun.
If you live in rural American and someone breaks into your home in the middle of the night the correct response is (1) shoot him, (2) call your nearest neighbor and tell them what happened, so they can put the word out to the rest of your neighbors and be on the lookout for any fleeing accomplices (3) call the sheriff and tell him what happened, (4) put on a pot of coffee, (5) wait on your porch for your neighbors to arrive, look at the body, and drink coffee with you on the porch, (6) wait an hour or more for the sheriff’s deputy to arrive (with the Justice of the Peace in tow) to take your statement and for the JP to declare, “Yep, he’s dead,” and (7) wait until morning for the local undertaker to arrive and haul off the body.
Like many of my relatives, I live in a remote rural area-have most of my life-and I agree that your description of the differences between rural and city life are correct-city dwellers who move out here usually don’t stay more than a year or two-they don’t have what it takes to be happy with self sufficiency...
We do have satellite internet out here, but the general store is 10 miles away, nearest grocery store-a Lowe’s market-is 18, nearest HEB, WalMart, etc is about 32 miles-and EMS and the sheriff’s deputies are 30 minutes to an hour away-there are only about 19,000 people in this whole county-the largest town has 900 of them, so there aren’t a lot of LEOs and they cover a huge territory.
I drive my 4x4 to the Lowe’s and the butcher shop every couple of weeks, and get any immediate needed stuff at the general store in between times. Most everyone drives either an SUV or a truck, usually a 4x4. Like most other people, I order everything from clothes to makeup online and UPS brings it to the gate...
If someone climbed over the gate at the road, I’d call the sheriff before they ever got to the house, while holding my shotgun-if hearing it get pumped did not deter them, then I would follow your steps, accordingly-I’ve already pointed a pistol at an intruder who burst through the front door-he was deterred....