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I think it more comes down to the fact that if you live in a rural area, you have to have a very independent and individualistic mindset because you are so far away from things that you have to do most things yourself. This leads to a less collectivist mindset. Your main hub of society tends to be the nearest church, which is where you see the other people living nearby. Or maybe the bass pro shop or waffle house if you are near enough to one of those.
When you live in a city, you are about as deep in society as you can get, and you can quickly understand why we need to help each other because you see the results of not doing that all around you (mental illness, drug addicition, homelessness, etc.).
It's not that one is right and the other wrong, it's that they are life viewed from fundamentally different perspectives and needs.
Let's not think of all the infrastructure to get what they sell to the people who buy it or that gets the stuff you buy to you. And if your response is, "Well, that's only 100 miles to the nearest store/city/hospital," that completely ignores how the stuff got there so you could pick it up.
Unless your lifestyle is such that you only have to buy or sell things a few times per year to survive, you're relying on that national/global infrastructure to enjoy your rugged, individualistic lifestyle.