On one hand, you have a lot of people online making arguments about rural living being ecologically harmful, an economic drain on the country, because (among ot

On one hand, you have a lot of people online making arguments about rural living being ecologically harmful, an economic drain on the country, because (among other reasons) it requires cars to work. Then you have these other people suggesting ways to revise cities that reduce the need for cars. So some rural people connect these two dots, perhaps not always unfairly, and interpret the walkable city activism as people advocating for the eradication of their preferred rural/car lifestyle. And predictably, they don't like that very much, and don't have kind words for such advocates.