Plutocracy in the US is crushing essentially all rural communities.

"Financial uncertainty, disappearance of their social systems, lack of access to basic services, isolation, and emigration."

The right-wing politicians that have done this distract the people of those communities by demonizing scapegoats, and via religion. Meanwhile, as they drive more people out of those places, ever tinier fractions of the US get to elect a senator.

In the 1980s, when Democrats were not yet plutocratists, it was the Republicans elected by rural America that helped banksters take away most family farms.