Oh RVW that is not fair! You know you can not grow food in cement and asphalt! In fact the amount of food available in the average city is measured in days ( anybody know the number ) so if a major disaster occurs they suffer most. Urban populations can not get by without the rural ones and the same applies reversed. Urban areas are dependant on government to deliver basic services or they bite the dust, literally. Rural areas depend on the urban funded infrastructure for a elevated transportation network and some other basics that allows their standard of living and are much more self reliant for basics. They will take subsidies as no one with half a brain turns down a sack of cash.

Always marveled at the silly lack of understanding and how both sides of the population whack away at each other, yet both would be in the toilet with out the other.