It’s understandable if you take time to talk to people living outside a major city.

You mean the people who’s only news source is Fox News?

Chicago also has some financial problems the state will likely absorb yo some degree as well which only further inflames the resentment.

Chicago is the financial backbone of the state. And major cities are where most of the population of the state live. Seriously, where do you think the money for everything comes from? The little podunk towns where virtually no one lives? The acres of rural nothing in the middle of the state where nothing but corn and racism grows?

Rural Americans think entirely too much of themselves. They are not the “backbone of America” they believe themselves to be. They are the leeches who complain the loudest about the life blood that goes toward anything but them.