I forgot to mention that part about combining rural areas with urban areas. This is because the urban area is more populous and would dominate the urban areas in any vote. It would force the rural areas to be serviced by the urban police, fire and emergency services and spread the cost of the union wages and benefits for the services to the rural areas.
It also includes the Wildlands agenda of purchasing farm land and turning it into recreational land for urban people, putting it off limits for farming, especially raising animals.
The goal is to reduce the population in rural areas and return the land to its rightful owners (the Indians), shutting down small farms and promoting farming on large conglomerate farms which would agree to ship the grain and soy beans to China.
As I mentioned before, shifting the profit and jobs to blue states away from the heart land and the Mississippi.
They have already started this by reducing the dredging on the Mississippi and forcing the ships and barges to reduce their draft and the amount of cargo that they can carry in one shipment. This probably also exacerbated the flooding conditions this year.
So this is pretty much another manifestation of overarching tactic of Obama to advance his “agenda” through the use of the USDA, EPA, FCC, etc to circumvent Congress.