Because city/urban life BREEDS dependency!!!! When it snows and blows in drifts, ranch folks dig out and go feed cattle. Remember the huge Atlas storm on the plains a few years back? The TV showed folks out working even in the face of terrible loss. Remember Katrina? Folks sitting on rooftops waiting to be rescued. The power goes out on a ranch we plug in our generator! It goes out in a big city, people die. Urban people are dependent on government for everything in their lives. Garbage service, water, power, sewage. I have a burn barrel, a well, a backup generator and a septic tank I installed. When my stuff breaks I fix it. From road repair to libraries to hospitals to sidewalks, EVERYTHING in a city persons life is built and maintained by GOVERNMENT. AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM. So when these radical ideas are presented in a nice shiny package by twisted folks with evil agendas they accept it as fact. Everything the government does for them conditions them to swallow the whole ridiculous fiasco. And the left knows this and plays them like a fiddle. They only know dependency as sad as that it is. It's worse the bigger the city.