Joe Biden and the MSM have been giving Sarah Palin a hard time about her assertion that some parts of the country are more patriotic than others. Those of us who've lived in both city and country don't find her claim outlandish at all.
This National Review article reports University of Michigan research data that totally supports her claim. Small town residents are 50% more likely to say they have extremely strong love for the U.S. than their big city counterparts. Roughly half of big city residents have extremely strong love of the U.S. while three quarters of small town and rural residents hold that view. As we social scientists like to say, that difference is both statistically significant and meaningful.
