The culture war is, at its core, a fight to remain in one place long enough to develop a culture at all. Right now any city that gets too successful is at risk of getting Detroited by Johnny-come-latelies that want easy money after the hard work is done.
"To have a culture, mostly the same people have to live mostly in the same place for a long time."—Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance, p. 57