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It's genetic. Robert McNeil, in his book on the English language, noticed that the English have the same opinion of people from east Anglia, i.e. Norfolk and Suffolk, and generally the area from The Wash down to the Thames, in easternmost England. That is the source area for many of the Massachusetts Bay colonists, and they and New Englanders have many cultural traits in common, all deplored by the mass of civilized humanity.

Genetic? You mean you are a racist?

Maybe you've noticed that that part of Britain has been the most Conservative section of the country in the 20th century.

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Genetic? You mean you are a racist?

LOL -- the hopeful note in your tone is actually funny. Oh, to get LG banned as an anti-WASP racist, LOL! Welladay!

Whatever is in the water in easternmost England made those folks a bunch of sourpuss pushypants, and they brought it with them to the New World, to the detriment and manifest injury of the New World.