Really? That's your go-to glib answer? No discussion about education opportunities or job prospects? No question about why the downturn was really noted in 2014? Just immediately jumping to the conclusion that rural people MUST be hateful?
Disappointing.
Yes. Adult females do not want to be infantilized to be called "girls". You don't have to understand it to be a decent human being, you just have to respect it.
Maybe do some reading about women's liberation if you want to understand.