“There are two New Jerseys.”
I thing, in reality, there are pretty much two (Insert your state’s name)’s with respect to a majority of all of our states. Anywhere you have large cities (or in the case of some of the less populated states, comparatively “large” cities), you have festering $hitholes that reach out and pollute their surrounding countrysides. I know for sure that’s the case here in California where I have lived for all of my 74 years. But less than ten miles away, it’s a completely different story. There, “corridor people” live in great numbers. As you point out, in the NE you have a lot of very nice places to live, but “corridor people”control the political process with the “assistance” of Marxist RAT politicians who pander to the “needs” of these cretins. The open question is when (or possibly if) are we going to have to defend our places of abode from the “corridor people.” Folks in Ferguson are arming themselves as this is being written.
Of course you are correct! I have lived in 14 states, so far, and the New Jersey I lived in was idyllic (no other word for it.)
The whole of the US is turning into a cultural conflict between "corridor" people and more culturally traditional American people, regardless of location, so I will not pick on New Jersey.
Excuse me for a moment. I must slip into my spandex outfit. You know, the one that shows off my tattoos where it's torn? I have to get over to Wal-Mart to put $60 worth of chips on my EBT card and pick up my free diabetes and BP medication.