I guess we're going to have to go over this, so both parties working policy on rural areas pretty much comes down to "go fuck yourself, lol". Neither party will say that out loud, but the slight difference in their marketing strategy in rural areas has been that the Republican party heavily implies an offer to spite urban liberals as much as possible. Which one of the many reasons why election maps tend to end up looking like the above.

Now I'm pretty sure we all know big city liberals are very infuriating, let's just say they really don't do themselves any favors the farther away from a big city they go. Like we're talking full on detached (much more than normal) from reality, to the level that if asked a lot of rural people would love to have them shoved up against a wall. Also to be nice and blunt about this, some people here on hexbear tend to exhibit the same thing as the "big city liberal" a bit at times.