Most cities are becoming dumps and more dangerous.... it's the type of personalities and low character types who like to live in those regions that are to blame. I just hate it that some of them are getting wise and making a exodus and bringing their nutter ideas with them to pollute the rural area's. Stay in the Cities please it's so much better and safer there.
St. Louis and parts of a lot of cities are definitely dumps for various reasons. But we might want to slow down the rhetoric when we are stereotyping a couple million individual human beings.
Also: https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem
But what am I thinking? This should move over to the political crap board.