So somehow Democrats have access to huge amounts of wealth so much that they rule over greater inequality than rural Republicans, yet Democrats refuse to redistribute that wealth in line with their professed values. Even the poorest Americans are richer than average big-country Europeans (https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-richer-than-most-nations-of-europe/). So Republican states are managing more equality than Democratic states while maintaining more wealth than major European countries. You're right - Equality requires community. Republicans focus on voluntary communities; Democrats focus on involuntary communities forced together through the government, which by nature runs systems of mass coercion.