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by panglott 3386 days ago
I think you captured it with "1. Certain political parties have their base in rural areas and want to subsidize their life style."

The suburbs are politically very important in the U.S. because a lot of people live there. The question of most national elections is whether the suburbs will ally with the urban core or the rural areas, and the answer is usually the rural areas.