I don't know, Rapaire. It's kind of hard for me to make that determination. I haven't seen any threads started by people from New York saying those kinds of things about people from the Midwest or the South.

I started out my life living sandwiched between the ocean, a salt water marsh, and a very thin strip of civilization (a single row of houses) that connected us to the nearest neighborhood. It wasn't rural, it wasn't urban, and it wasn't really suburban, either. I thought I was living in paradise. I spent the rest of my growing up wishing we hadn't moved from there to the Washington DC area. I've spent most of my adulthood living in the rural parts of areas that get made fun of a lot: Oklahoma, West Virginia (and other parts of Appalachia), and now, I'm living in a travel trailer in a mobile home park in rural Alabama.

I've seen urban people acting haughty in the rural areas where I've lived. I didn't enjoy that very much. And I've seen rural people make fun of urban people while they were guests in those urban areas. I was embarassed for them when they did that. Personally, I don't see the point in any of it. We're all just people, right?