[IrishBrigade]

You can go state by state, and find various states without an urban area (like Iowa),

...Iowa has Dubuque and Des Moines, two urban settings exhibiting typical urban rot...look at Wyoming and Vermont instead, two states totally devoid of sizeable urban settings...and the analogy is valid...

[SeekAndFind]

From Wikipedia: (NOTE FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T FAMILIAR --- Malmo is Sweden's THIRD largest city ( 300,000 ). 15% of the Population are foreign nationals, many from Bosnia, Lebanon, Iran and Turkey ).

Juvenile robberies reported to the police annually.

Town	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999, Jan. – June
Malmö	53	58	170	210	196
Stockholm	569	411	709	682	613

[SeekAndFind]

Edit to Add — Stockholm has about 2 million people.

[gusty]

Great example. The populations of Wyoming and Vermont could not be more different in many aspects, political and cultural. However they have two things in common, and we all can guess what they are. They are demographics and lack of gun control.