I lived in Chicago years ago - had to hide my slight southern accent as the Chicago types were hateful and scornful toward all Southerners. These types never see their own bigotry. It's the first earmark of a liberal...
They scare people with lies and absurd claims. The Democratic Party wouldn't want their groomed voters garnering any hint of freedom and success -- they shut it down with "trigger" racism words to blind them and plug their ears from the truth that all Democratic controlled cities have rotted from "progressive" social justice politics.
I’m a Southerner and I work in Chicago, but I live 30 miles west. Where I work and where I live are like two different planets. You are right about Chicagoans: They are some of the most intolerant bigots there are, and not just towards Southerners, though they do have a profound passion in their hatred of Southerners. But where I live, 30 miles west of Chicago, it’s quite different. Still Yankeeland, but nowhere near as bad as Chicago. I’m headed back to Dixie when I retire in four years.