Rural america were glad that the inner city was decaying during their worst 1970-1980 period and now they want sympathy that they never gave to inner city areas.
And they will get it because it's happening to white people now. We all know that when something happens to white people it's a tragedy and not their faults, but when it happens to minority communities, we hear that they are just lazy or disinterested in bettering themselves. Just look at the opioid crises reactions and contrast that the war on drugs.
