Cities are totalitarian gulags. They give the tyrants of any age a prime opportunity to CONTROL the masses. Don’t believe me? Look at where the blue is on any state political map. It’s in the cities.
This is almost impossible to believe now, but there actually was a time in America when the cities were "civilized" and civil, and the hinterlands were dangerous. Remember the Old West? Back then eastern cities really were safe . . . and religious.
But then, that was back in the days when "left wing reformers" crusaded against gambling, prostitution, and alcohol!