Urbanites tend to vote liberal and ruralites conservative.
Conservatives in the US and Canada tend to favor smaller government, particularly when it comes to the economy.
However, on some other issues, like national defense/offense, conservatives tend to favor bigger government, but when it comes to the economy at least, conservatives squarely favor smaller government, and this kind of makes sense, since farmers, fisherman and so on, have to be heartier and more self-reliant, self-employed, as opposed to urbanites, who, with the exception of some small businesses, tend to either be employees or employ lots of employees.
Of course there is industrial agriculture too, coalmining, forestry, manufacturing, and many on the bottom rungs of these industries tend to liberal, but overall, rural areas are more decentralized, and so naturally wearier of both big government, and outsiders.
The way provinces in Canada and states in the US are structured, is they tend to contain both densely populated urban areas (cities), sparsely populated rural areas (villages), and areas somewhere in between (towns), as well as unpopulated areas (wilderness).
Unfortunately, politics seem to be becoming increasingly polarized.
Perhaps this liberal conservative rift is less about right and wrong, and more about demographics, and it could be resolved by a parting of ways, instead of trying, and failing to reach a consensus, when instead we could change the structure of states, for example the coast of California is very urban, and very liberal, where as the inland is very rural, and very conservative.
These two areas of California are so different from one another, how could we expect them to ever agree on anything, so what do we do?
We split California into two states, we split every state that has both a large urban area and a large rural area in two, where as states that’re almost exclusively one way or the other, can remain as they are.
So urban liberals can run things the way they like, with a bigger government, and rural conservatives can run things the way they like, with a smaller government, and on issues that effect them both, like foreign policy, immigration, protectionism and so on, those can be decided federally, but many economic issues, as well issues like abortion, gun control and so on, you can have all the abortion and socialism you want in exclusively urban states, and all the guns and capitalism you like in exclusively urban states.