[pepsi_junkie]

The image people have of NJ is probably from TV (think Jersey Shore and the Sopranos) or from drving up the turnpike on their way between DC and NYC or Boston. Basically they think it's all industrial parks, swamps and run down neighborhoods fool of goombas and guidos in wife beaters talking in thick "joisy" accents. And ghettos in Camden and Newark.

It's not that. Well, yes to some extent it's that. But that's not all it is.

[Publius]

Among New Jersey’s counties, Cape May, Warren, Hunterdon and Sussex are beautiful.

[dp0622]

No in fact there’s MANY, many professional Italians who moved to Southern NJ and are wonderful people.

Like my 3 sisters. :)

But Professional, law obeying Italians don’t make for good TV.

[Clemenza]

Connecticut and Rhode Island have more Italian Americans per capita than New Jersey does. There are no urban “white ethnic” neighborhoods anymore, other than Wallington (Polish), as new waves of immigration from Latin America, India, Korea and the Middle East have transformed things considerably.

[Clemenza]

And I have NEVER heard anyone from NJ say “Joisey.” That’s Bowery Boy speak. Most whites people of any ethnicity in North Jersey talk like the late Anthony Bourdain.