Columbus doesn't have a right to make fun of anyone. This is the first time in their existance that they're relevant. Who cares what a bunch of Ohio hicks think?
I'm not one to get annoyed by words like "hick" but this smells of a NYer that doesn't realize there's life outside of NY. I've worked with and have friends from Ohio, not one of them is a hick and in fact they're all very intelligent people.