To play devil’s advocate here, I suspect many rural voters would probably just say they’d like to be left alone more than anything else.

They really buy into that Reagan line about “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” being the 9 most terrifying words in the English language. They haven’t seen government programs working effectively around them.

I’m not sure promising more government assistance for rural areas is a winning message, is my point.

We might be able to point out the class divide between republican voters and their representatives, though. That, and highlighting the donors those representatives are really working for.

Conservative philosophy has had generations to settle in these areas, so any messaging to the contrary is going to be an uphill climb.