New York City embraces a very sophisticated citizenry, possibly the most sophisticated of any city in America.
Someone needs to look up the word "sophist" and ponder its relationship to the word "sophisticated."
On the contrary, Mr. Emmett Tyrrell, you have assumed a fact not in evidence. I have observed that New Yorkers are some of the dumbest, parochial, and backward Americans on the planet — for all of their vaunted superiority. They are smug, arrogant, insular, and ignorant of anything outside Manhattan and the five boroughs. Most couldn't pour water out of a boot if you provided them with written directions.