Wow, what is with the hating on New Yorkers and North Easterners on this Forum? The last time I checked I am an American just like everybody else. I traveled outside New York,to the South and to Texas, where I encountered a few neanderthals along the way, but I knew not to put everyone in the same pot. I have no hate for the people of the Red States, they were some of the most kind, down to earth people. The one thing I do admire about the people of the South and Texas is that they love Jesus and are not afraid to show it, which I will say Amen to that.
I am in California and similar comments are made about residents in my state too. Truthfully, I can't blame people. Why on earth would Texans want to see a flood of liberal New Yorkers (or Californians) flood their state and bring their liberal politics with them? There has been a steady exodus of California businesses from our state (ie. wealth producers) and Californians with it. You shouldn't let it bother you so. They're not talking about you.
We also don't want people telling us how bad/backwards things are here, how we need to change, and how stupid we must be.
I am not a native Texan. I came here from Georgia.
I had a friend there whose husband I could never warm up to. I suppose it was because she once told me that her husband said that "whenever anyone opens their mouth and a Southern accent comes out, he automatically deducts 30 points from their IQ." They were Long Island natives.
I worked at a teaching hospital. A co-worker and her physician husband were from the upper Midwest. She told me once that "the reason we get so many babies here with heart defects is because this is the South and people are so interbred." I was dumbfounded. When I checked that out with another physician, he thought I had lost my mind; he informed me that the incidence of congenital defects was pretty much the same nationwide. Unfortunately the other couple had moved on and I could not correct his misconception.
In either case, I only wish I had had the nerve and presence of mind of a native Texan friend of mine. She had some business dealings with a couple of late-middle-aged "ladies" from Wisconsin. They came down to Texas and, first, informed her that they were from "Progressive" Wisconsin. They then proceeded to find fault with most everything and everyone, including the waiter who made the mistake of asking "And what would you girls like to drink this evening?" My friend was forbearing but finally had enough. She looked them in the eyes and said: "This is TEXAS. People here in Texas are polite and friendly and patient. However, this IS TEXAS. We also like to drink, and fight, and a lot of us carry guns. If y'all continue to criticize and complain about everything and everybody and talk about how much better Wisconsin is, somebody is going to lose patience, take offense, and beat the crap out of the both of you!" They minded their manners considerably better after that.
Their portion of the country is who elected this incompetent moron and his willing congress and I am supposed to just hold hands and sing “Kumbaya” with them? Not hardly. Their concept of America is about 180 degrees from mine. There are hard-working patriots in every state. They would be received with open arms. The others, they can stay put until they get their mind right.