To me it's just another case of blue staters trying to prove how superior they are to red-staters whom they think are a bunch of dumb watermelon-seed-spitting hicks who can't speak right like blue-staters do.
Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world.~ Ted Rall, Nov 9th, 2004
You know I live in Maryland and no matter where I go the folks say I'm from the other. When I head south I'm a damnyankee and when I head north I'm a redneck. So the harder I try the worse off I am. Anymore when I head south I just remind them who won. When I go north, I tell them south has risen again and Kerry can back to eating PBJ's on Mama T's lap.