Sure...convince yourself that it’s just some sort of complex and not a reaction to the way you people act.
Ah....I think he/she is on your team:’)
I was coming out of a Rite Aid parking lot in Bristol, NH. Some joker in a Ford pick-up with NH plates cuts me off, completely, while yelling out the window "Masshole!"
I'm doing a load of laundry in a laundromat in Bristol, NH. I'm the only customer there. A few locals are sitting around at a card table, bitching loudly about Massholes and flat-landers. Again, I'm the only customer in the joint. If I wasn't there, there'd be no customers there. If no "Massholes" were there, there'd never be any customers at all.
And my taxes---lumped with everyone else's taxes---send these peoples' children to school. They fix the roads, they pay for the upkeep of the town . . . they even allow for the town to put out a nicely bound edition of their yearly proceedings, something my own town down here in MA can't even afford to do.
I've never once done a disparaging thing to a New Hampshire person because he or she was from New Hampshire. It wouldn't even cross my mind to do so.
The whole Masshole thing is a NH inferiority complex. And a silly one at that.