Palm Beach as "rural"?

That's what Eugene Scott of the Washington Post suggests in this column yesterday, which is headlined, "Trump’s exit from New York for Florida highlights America’s growing urban-rural divide."  Here are the most salient paragraphs:

[Trump's] recent decision to leave his penthouse on Fifth Avenue for residency in the state of Florida, where he has long vacationed, reminds us that Trump’s status as a leader of the culture wars — particularly the urban-rural divide — may be more defining than anything else.

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Among the various culture wars dividing the country, one that has become increasingly visible under the Trump presidency is the urban-rural divide. Perhaps no election in recent history has shed more light than the 2016 race on how differently people in America’s more remote areas see issues from residents of metropolitan areas. And despite having been born and raised in arguably America’s most iconic city, the president’s worldview is most often associated with those far from the urban core. That is in part why Trump remains popular in rural America despite having low approval ratings in major cities — including his native New York, which he lost in 2016 to Hillary Clinton, who grew up in Chicago but lived in Arkansas before entering national politics.

One of the really odd things about Scott's column is that he never addresses the fact that there's nothing rural about Palm Beach, population 8,348.  It is located in metropolitan Palm Beach County, population 1.5 million.  The only way in which it could be considered rural is as a, well, kinda' foil to uber urban New York City.