Sure but what would that have to do with subsidization?

What’s the GDP of New York City versus upstate?

As an aside this silly concept of “rural/urban divide” is just that.

Silly.

We need farms and farmers to feed us, it’s ok to subsidize some of these places so that happens.

It’s also ok for the people doing the subsidization to ask the rural people to stop complaining about “socialism” or other nonsense when they’re the primary benefactors of handouts.