People with honest traits do live in cities. They might be a minority; but, they are there.
I could not agree more. During my 40 years as a city-dweller I made some wonderful friends and had some great neighbors. But, it only takes one rotten apple to spoil the whole barrel, and our cities have much more than one rotten apple.
I mainly want to highlight that it's not "everywhere west of Nashville" that's rotten. This NW corner of Tennessee is more decent and wholesome than I can find words for.