They’ll need reeducating. Got to take them out shooting, invite them over, teach them to like the good things, such as BBQ and beer, fishing, all-terrain vehicles, etc. Make them listen to country-western and bluegrass. Take them to tent meetings and then honky tonks:-) They want multicultural, don’t they? Finally, when they haven’t found any sheets and hoods in your closet, no matter how hard they looked, and are convinced that you are not married to your cousin, play talk radio, and let them figure out that it’s Rush they’re listening to. Either they’ll run away screaming back to New York, or they’ll undergo a paradigm shift and start trying to sound Southern themselves, and you’ll be their guide to a new way of life.
Either that or tell them to squeal like a pig and drop their pants.
I’m from Staten Island. We’re as close to the south as you can get in NYC.
The other boroughs call us rednecks :)
And we’re proud that they do.