re: Democrats' urban machine

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Rural and most of suburbia are federal government minimalists. They don't need nor want much of it...maybe some interstate highways and defense. However urban America are federal government gluttons.

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USDA subsidies?

Plus you have to factor in that it costs a lot more per capita to build a bridge that sees 100 cars per hour (rural) than a bridge that sees 10,000 cars per hour (urban) if those bridges are being funded primarily through gas taxes, for instance.

Also there are a lot of rural areas that are very poor with high concentrations of SNAP, Medicaid, etc. Regardless of stereotypes, the rural areas in this country still rely on lots and lots of federal funding.