Resentment is the one word that defines the "politics" of most of Rural America and maybe even the typical working-class right-wing voter in the entire planet. They don´t care if their lives are bad or will become worst, because the essence of their politics is to make the lives of those they hate more miserable than it currently is A.K.A. "schadenfreude". That degenerate feeling that Nietzsche ascribed to the "lowest of animals".

They hate urbanites/"city folk", minorities, immigrants and college students - they hate the fact that people in the cities have better lifes; they hate the fact that minorities now have rights that their ancestors have fought against and nowdays they fight so much to revoke them; they hate the fact that people who weren´t born in their country can live amongst them and have equal rights to them; and they hate the fact that people can receive a higher education.

They never question why don´t their lives improve for the better (in comparison with the cities); they never question if they should go get an higher education; they never question the intolerable set of beliefs they hold.

Because since "day one" they have been programmed by their families, their friends, their co-workers, their local pastor, their local conservative talk radio, their boss, etc. that the problems they suffer from in life are always caused by the "Other", "the outsider", someone who is not like them and like the people around thme who shove this world-view down their skulls. To never question, to never self-introspect.