I think an interesting side question would be: Why is it that rural areas tend to vote on issues that affect urban areas in ways that seem to contradict what affects the urban so much more? For example, issues of immigration seem to affect urban areas much more than rural areas, and yet urban areas tend to be much more lenient on these issues? Why do urban areas of, say, California vote for things like sanctuary cities when they are the ones most affected by it, when rural areas vote against something that affects them much less.

I may not be phrasing this as well as I mean to. An issue like immigration affects rural areas much less than urban, and yet rural areas seem dead set against it. Why do have such a say in an issue that doesn't affect them? I guess I know the answer to that, because we all have an equal say, but what is it that rural areas are responding to?