To make that worse, historically problematic movements like the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge and large parts of the Chinese communism found better support in rural areas. I strongly recommend Ian Buruma's "Occidentalism". It's short, packed with information, well researched and completely changed how I see the world. I would go so far to say that we need everything we can to have as few people live in rural areas as possible. Otherwise we will keep getting movements of rural people feeling left behind by the cold, calculating, greedy and immoral urban dwellers which will ultimately result in them yet again dragging everything down with them.