"They could never get away with crap like that outside of a major city, it's the only place they have sufficient #'s to try stuff like that anyway's. To many rednecks hoping for something like those riots to happen out in the country, a SHTF wet dream come true for them."
Exactly right!
Way back in my younger years, they intergrated the school system in the small town I was living in at the time. Riots began almost at once, and went on for several days. Finally, the black community decided they wanted to "burn the town". When the mob started to cross the RR track that divided the town, they discovered the roofs of the buildings lined with riflemen. The plan to "burn the town" died right there, and the crowd went home.
This happened in 1975. The nonsense in LA and Cincinnati would never happen in a rural area.