Those of us who live in rural areas like to think of ourselves as independent people who don’t need any help, least of all from the government.
The great philosopher Hank Williams Jr. summed this up in his treatise, “A Country Boy Can Survive.”
That, however, is all a myth. The annual State of the Commonwealth report by Old Dominion University spells out just how big a myth it is: Twenty-two localities in Virginia subsidize the other 111…