I'll just take it as flattery.
I am a kid that loved computers, who grew up in the last generation without internet, who had to suffer large trying to get internet service out in boonieville land, where daily weather and wind patterns would cause sufficient data errors on your dialup internet connection (That of course, being rural, goes through enough antiquated phone network switching equipment that has not been properly serviced since the 1940s, when they were installed DUE TO AN ACT OF CONGRESS, making what should be a 56kbaud connection actually closer to a 28.8kbaud connection, from all the resends and parity errors the connection suffers) --- Who grew up rural, then moved to the city--- and as such, has experienced both walks of life, and thus can critique both.
Personally, I find that the rural people tend to be better "People"--- in that they tend to treat each other and strangers much better than city people do, by and large. (there are always assholes. Always. They are a fact of life. However, if you have say-- a 10% incidence rate of assholes, and 10 families in a huge area-- the incident asshole population is gonna be 1 to 2 people, and EVERYONE knows know they are, and EVERYONE works together to deal with the resident asshole among the rural community and their bullshit.---- HOWEVER, in a dense urban environment, where you can have 100 people in a single apartment building-- that same 10% statistic means you have 10 assholes in that one building alone, and people are less chummy in general, because they are subjected to much greater levels of asshole each day. This leads to a kind of festering "Fuck it-- I will do what *I* want, because you are all assholes anyway!", which leads to a degenerate cycle, socially speaking.)
Due to their isolation, they tend to be more ignorant; As in, their total knowledge pool is diminished. However, that does not make them "Stupid". (This is a very important distinction, and often urban people think that farmers are dumb. This is simply untrue.) They tend to be more honest, they tend to work harder and understand the consequences of not working better than those who are sheltered (such as through multiple layers of social support networks, or simply from pathological cases of afluenza) from such consequences. (Please do not take this to mean that inner city poor people are not well aware of such consequences; By no means! Indeed, the rural people tend to have more natural resources at their disposal to deal with such adversities than do the resource constrained urban poor, which is why urban poor have to resort to criminality to survive.) This means that as a cultural fixture, the whole community works together to tackle large, but necessary projects, and often simply volunteer work without any notion of direct recompense. EG, The farmer that lives next to an essential, but often hard-to-maintain section of dirt road, will invest time and energy keeping it graded and passable, which other farmers in the area then make use of in the area-- in exchange, they may monitor that person's property better for hooligans or wild nuisance animal activity, or may monitor fencing for signs of wear and tear, and do volunteer repair work, etc--- and in so doing, the local community of farmers all contribute to each other in small but meaningful ways; This is the "Proto-communist" more I am referring to. Each does according to their ability, to each, according to their need, and everyone comes out of the arrangement better off-- but each one clearly owns, and respects not only their own property but that of all other members of the community-- Ownership is still very much a thing.
The major source of adversity comes from city people who do not understand this kind of dynamic-- who think farmers are all a bunch of lazy dumb people who just inherited a bunch of land, and then fuck off all day after working for just a few days a year (and not year-round, all damn day, like actually is the case), and who are selfish, greedy bastards who just dont want to let them come out and play with their ATVs that the city wont let them drive around on the parkways (For the same fucking reasons, more or less-- EG, that the activity is ******NOT****** "Harmless Fun," SOMEBODY has to clean up after, and fix the damage they do when they engage in such activities on public lands-- and when they decide to sneak out and do it serruptitiously on private lands, they act like the world is out to get them, rather than wise up that hey, maybe there's a reason nobody wants them doing that. Anyway-- when such people come out and go "Oh, nobody will notice if I just DUMP A SHIT LOAD OF OLD RUSTY APPLIANCES IN THAT OVERFLOW CULVERT--- or "Nobody will care if I dump 50 bags of used diapers and other disgusting rubbish on this roadside-- NOBODY (important, smart, or valuable that anyone cares about) Lives here!" etc-- decide to enter the rural areas, and do those kinds of things, it is what rural people come to expect from city people (since otherwise city people are completely absorbed in their own daily drudgeries, and really, the intricacies of how to mend a fence when you see one down, or why you should round up your neighbor's cattle when they bust the fence (again), are alien concepts for them--- and so the community features of rural areas are alien things as well-- and never enter their minds-- so, they never have any reason to ever visit rural areas in a non-hooligan fashion. It's always "Lets go out and go hunting (even though we dont actually know what a deer looks like, or how to hunt, and will frequently shoot at anything that moves, including cows, horses, dogs, cats, goats, sheep, and basically anything else, because of this lack of experience)" or "Hey, Let's go out to the river and have a good time! (where we will get drunk and disorderly, because we know the cops will take a long time to show up, will leave our bottles and trash because we know nobody will be able to enforce having us clean it up, will make a big assed uncontrolled pit fire, because no game warden, etc...)" and other such misbehavior.
This then causes the farmers to respond instinctively with "get the shotgun."
It is NOT that the farmers are mean, surly, un-neighborly, or otherwise clannish horrible people like from Silent Hill. It just means they understand, and have to contend with all the consequences that the city people are (purposefully) dumping on them, when they come out to "Have fun". (Or when they dump trash, or unwanted large breed dogs, or otherwise be a menace to everyone else through their shamelessly selfish actions.) It means that "No, we do not want to clean up after you and your bullshit-- Pack up and go home."
Naturally, that causes "Animosity."