Are New Yorkers simply detestable?

Steven Chapman on Why it's time to bury the myth of rural virtue:

In 2007, a survey of 8th graders by the Monitoring the Future project at the University of Michigan found that country kids were 26 percent more likely to experiment with drugs than middle-schoolers elsewhere. Overall methamphetamine consumption among adults and teens is more than 50 percent higher in the country.The story with alcohol is worse still. ... Nor is the countryside exempt from social problems often associated with the inner city—such as, if you'll forgive me, out-of-wedlock births. ...The highest rates of births to unwed mothers are in Mississippi and New Mexico, both of which have high rural populations. The most urban states, New Jersey and California, do better than the average in out-of-wedlock births.

Jon Stewart got ticked off for the same big-town-bashing that certain politicians engage in, implying that big towns are nothing but immoral in every possible way. Watch him here: