> In practice, people is small towns and rural counties are extremely self-sufficient. The narrative that rural counties are extremely self-sufficient is utter

> In practice, people is small towns and rural counties are extremely self-sufficient. The narrative that rural counties are extremely self-sufficient is utter-nonsense, cult-like thinking. They don't have the population, tax-base, or non-individualistic thinking to do anything at all. They're dead in the water without outside funding, which comes from the state/county where people actually live/work.