I spent time in the South (NC) and can testify they are easily the warmest and most friendly people in the country (Southerners in general)
NE types are fine as long as you agree with them but turn nasty real quick if you don’t. The best word to describe them is “pissy”
The people of MA are not almost universally referred to as “Massholes” for nothing.
Yes, pissy is the perfect term. It seems to be tightly coupled with being a NE liberal too. All my conservative friends here, while being quite staunch in their beliefs, generally don’t get pissy when someone disagrees with them.
The “Massholes” seem centered in Boston and in my experience, that attitude dissipates as you go outwards from there. Locally in Conn, the biggest horse’s posteriors are in the rich, liberal areas. I grew up in a farming town where cows outnumbered humans till the 90s, when many of the rich, liberal kids from other towns couldn’t afford to live in mommy and daddy’s town, so they moved here. And changed the character of the town.
“I spent time in the South (NC) and can testify they are easily the warmest and most friendly people in the country (Southerners in general)”
Yes, they are. But being a Midwest gal, my door is always open to my neighbor. I may not cook a prize winning Red Velvet Cake or Pecan Pie, and I may be a Yankee, but I wouldn’t ever turn someone away. None of my neighbors would, either.