I'm either paranoid, or you're talking about me. Since you've told me that I have no clue about the culture war, I'll guess the latter.
I think it's an important point to make (the takers/givers) not because of liberal or conservative politics but because of the made up rural/urban divide. It's no divide. Better than four out of five people live in urban or suburban areas.
I see the anti-urban bias here at FR in much the same light that you see the see bias against people with money, which you have commented on. Don't even get me started on the bias against the educated.
I don't mean to stoke the fires, but just think of our elected "leaders," and where they went for college.
But i think that you as a mixed race man fail to realize your perspective is just as indicative and perhaps prejudicial as that of a white southern man like myself is purported to be
We all opine as much via what we are as what we believe