Yes, having lived in the South and in texas most of my adult life, I recognize the visceral hatred of some toward New Yorkers with my New York accent.
I have never been able to get into local politics or anything near that because of it.
I never experienced that in New York, so it was a surprise to me. WE welcomed people from the South. my grandmother spent her adult life in New York, near the City and she was from the South. She lived a full life.
It’s difficult to live in NY, at least because of the cost of living, but because the few conservatives I know there tell me it is very difficult to be alone philosophically.
But I hear you. THe hatred of the NY accent is there. It’s ignorant and bigoted, and I recognize that from watching people like Sharpton, but it’s real.
bratton will have his own difficulties after not backing up his force, and for expecting them to be the ones to de fuse this.
I am a southerner who lived in MA for two decades+. The anti-southern bigotry was indescribable. I had people tell me straight up that southern-accent = stupid. I listened to conservative talk radio, and heard more MA natives than I can count lump all southerners in with the snaggle-tooth perverts in Deliverance. I could go on and on. Glad there was none of that in NY. Just a short drive south makes that much difference? Who could have imagined.
Bratton didn’t even have a New York accent.
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