The government is micromanaging, and thus destroying, rural America. From Elizabeth Nickson at elizabethnickson.substack.com:

The tsunami of lies that issued from leadership during the Covid hoax has created a hypervigilant populace which flares into suspicion given any excuse. The balloons, the unpopular Ukraine war, government-caused inflation, the parade of food production facilities bursting afire, the unacknowledged excess deaths, have contributed to an almost universal mistrust of anyone official. And then came East Palestine.
The Norfolk Southern railroad was carrying vinyl chloride which when ignited, turns into dioxin, the great-grandmother of all toxins Within days, it spread across the 75,000 family farms of Ohio, across the Nebraska wheat fields into the underground aquifers and has killed, so far, 45,000 fish. Birds fell out of the sky, and most think that anyone pregnant in the vicinity is at extreme risk. The fire released the largest plume of dioxin in history.
The government tried to blame the fire chief of a town of 5,000 for lighting the chemicals. That is not how it works in rural America. The Department of Interior through its various agencies micro-manages every watercourse, farm, range and forest. Whoever gave that order was at the top of the food chain: the governor, advised by Interior by the Office of the President. Every single interest was consulted and signed off in a prescribed chain of decisions, before the train car was drained of vinyl chloride and the fire was lit.

The following is a concision of populist opinion, observations, and theory:
Even the Wall Street Journal is expressing “concerns” about food production in the region after the Norfolk Southern crash. That, of course, is nothing compared to the anguish in the village itself, where people are developing all manner of symptoms, wheezing, coughing, throats closing up, migraines, seizures. The EPA finally demanded the railroad test for dioxin. On its website, the agency warns that even a small amount of backyard burning of vinyl chloride and dioxin released from burning is dangerous.
They hate the flyover people with a vengeance.
Return the favor, tenfold.
Hatred should come with a price other than a high emotional investment.
What a strong emotion, not to be wasted on the unworthy.
Harold the Brain lives out there and they barter like crazy, bundles of wood, food cache, labor, loan out farm vehicles and more.
There are zero welfare programs as well in those counties, the only drawback is the Marxist EDU centers with two.
Might relocate out there but will have to upgrade the finance as it costs a lot more, regarding land, homes, real estate.
It is so beautiful in the summer it looks like Ireland, just a wall of green with crops, ranches, and forest/woods patches and all flat so the wind gets to howling, you can see out about 5 miles from Harold’s estate!
This just in from Curtis Mayfield:
Move On Up (Tamer’s Lush Break Outtake)