We are rural folks. Not Trump supporters, but also not Hillary supporters, because of her corruption, her private email server, and her attempts to destroy the women sexually assaulted by her husband.
 First, Toby Keith is a pretty big name in country music. Just because this author hadn't heard of him doesn't make it otherwise. 
Second, at a function on New Years, our Toronto friends dropped a reference to the play Hamilton, which led to me commenting about how well written it was. Turns out they hadn't heard a song from it, and knew little about it. My kid has the score practically memorized. So for this author to draw an imaginary cultural line between urban an rural people (that line implying that we "local yokels and country bumpkins" could benefit from some sophistication and culture) is condescending and elitist.