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I'm guessing New York farmers don't have as much power as their Montana cousins.

Rural and low population _states_ have a fair amount of power due to having a fixed number of senators per state, but rural areas in an otherwise non-rural state may find themselves outvoted and thus mostly irrelevant.

The opposite situation, city slickers outvoted by country bumpkins, is of course possible in rural states.

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This obviously varies by state, but tends to not be accurate at the state level either due to the way state legislatures are elected.

For example, in my state the majority of residents live in the largest metro area. But the smaller towns & rural areas are able to more or less permanently control the legislature (because legislators have geographic districts). As a result, our laws are frequently written in ways that are openly hostile to our major city, while favoring more rural areas.

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