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Last week The Daily Beast didn’t include the District in its list of the country’s top 20 most tolerant cities, and now Travel and Leisure has us ranked as the third rudest city in the U.S.:

Politics is ugly, and perhaps getting uglier. Even though our nation’s capital still counts as a great family getaway, it got two spots ruder since last year. For less attitude, voters preferred to hang out with any locals cast in bronze or granite: the city ranked first and second for its museums and historical monuments.

The only ruder cities are New York and Miami, and we’re apparently bigger assholes than the residents of Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Baltimore and Orlando.

The rudeness ranking is part of a broader 2011 survey conducted by the magazine in which it asked both visitors and residents to assess the city in categories ranging from how good the singles scene is to what the best type of vacation to take here is. Pitted against 35 other cities, visitors don’t think too highly of how attractive we are (ranked 33rd), how proud we are of the District (again 33rd) and how well we drive (we’re 31st). Then again, we rank near the top on galleries and museums, historical sites and monuments, and as the type of place you’d want to go with a family or simply for a cultural getaway.

Before we go yelling about those ignorant outsiders, it’s interesting to see how the magazine says we judged ourselves. We actually ranked ourselves as uglier, more unfriendly, way worse at driving and less stylish than vistors did. But in one telling finding, while visitors only put us 11th on the list of intelligent cities, we ranked ourselves first.

We really do know better than they do, don’t we?