There is a simple explanation, the Northern laboring class is simply too stupid to have any exploitable comic value.
“There is a simple explanation, the Northern laboring class is simply too stupid to have any exploitable comic value.”
Fred Allen’s radio show “Allen’s Alley” had a comic character in “stoic New England farmer Titus Moody”.
It would seem that New Englanders are more lost to popular culture than that they lack comic value. Just look at who they have been electing in recent years.
First of all, that's pretty clearly untrue. Ordinary Northerners provide a lot of material for comedy. Maybe we just don't think of them as a "laboring class."
Secondly if it were true, it wouldn't help your argument or side: if Southerners were natural buffoons, there wouldn't be anything objectionable or unnatural in making fun of them.
Third, your comment is pretty revealing. All this complaining about how the Northern "they" are always ridiculing and looking down on the Southern "us" -- you have as much contempt for Northerners as any of us has for you, probably much more.