What you are describing is the cities.
Nope - drugs (meth, mostly), shitty schools, and unemployment is the rural America. Maybe you have to be from there to know it.
And you are wrong, there are a lot of people who find the "back woods" superior to cities in many respects.
Hardly anybody, though. That's the point - you rurals aren't salt-of-the-earth "real Americans", you're a small out-of-touch minority who nonetheless insist on everything else - especially urban policy - being run according to your wishes. Frankly a lot of us semi-urban types are tired of subsidizing your decadent lifestyles.
And like New Orleans, most folks would just sit there and wait for the gubmnt to come save them.
Of course, rurals are basically "gubmint come save me" when it comes to farm subsidies, and rural America sucks down about 5 dollars in Federal and state tax expenditures for every 1 dollar paid in taxes by rural communities, individuals, and businesses. You should be a lot less concerned about people trapped in the Superdome with no transportation, food, or water and a lot more concerned about how your unsustainable rural lifestyle continues only by picking my pocket.