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Probably The City (AKA San Francisco) is tops for this in the big city category....which goes beyond the usual local pride one would find in places like Chicago and New York City.
I see a bit of this in Louisville and Cincinnati (and someone mentioned Lexington...twice...and it's there..that horsey/southern take on gentility/preppyness/"We're Not Louisville/We're Special" thing....which is beyond the expected Go Big Blue college sports cult).
This doesnt really sound like a cult. It just sounds like snobbery and smugness in the which case it would be SF.
But as far as groupthink that has devolved into unhealthy worship, people in the East Coast seem to look at New York idolotrously and run to New York for protection when they are getting pounded in a thread about their city.
The Southeast, the South, the Midwest, Rockies and West Coast dont really look at NYC with the fascist zeal that Northeasters do. To us it's a fantastic place to visit, to the NE, it's like their God and they get defensive and go crazy when we talk about any other city in superlative terms.
Some people do that on the west coast too, I'm sure you wouldn't know anything about that. San Fran is the greatest.
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