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Atrios has a little hierarchy over on his blog today.

OK, when I read this I immediately thought of Philly, where people were constantly braying about how Philly was better than New York, Tulsa, or anything in California. But lets read on:

Further down he writes, "Oddly, Philadelphia is a 2nd class city with a 3rd class attitude." Wow. He must have a vastly different experience in Philly than I did. I've already written about the bigots at Boucher Communications, but when I used to live in Philly, I used to joke about how Philly is the Arkansas of the Northeast - most of the people I met were profoundly uncurious about not just other parts of the country, but other lifestyles and cultures. They reminded me of some hillbilly living on some mountainside in Arkansas, boasting about how they haven't left the county in 20 some-odd-years. The Philly Hillbillies seemed to universally eat meat, listen to corporate rock, and openly express racist attitudes; they were urban rednecks with an inflated sense of their city's importance.