The rural communities always suffer the most in an economic crisis.
It’s a matter of effective spending. Do you spend in areas where few are assisted or where many are helped?
Do you spend where people view themselves as survivalists and self-reliant or where there is an infrastructure to distribute what is needed?
“self-Reliance” isn’t much use against bands of hungry maraudering inner city animals prowling the country-side looking for anything of opportunity.
Rural folks will be fine if they can fend off the pilferers, it’s the urban cities and suburbia that will suffer most.