If Obama ever said anything like. Pfft those voters in rural whatever. They’re not real Americans like us that live in the cities, he would have gotten crucified. Meanwhile, Republican candidates routinely insist that people who live in cities are immoral and don’t have “values.” It’s a crock of shit done to give rural America a sense of superiority it doesn’t deserve. We’re all Americans from the most rural and isolated town to the densest part of NYC or LA.