[Hemingway's Ghost]

I work in MA and pay income tax. I can't vote in MA (legally) I have no say as to where that money goes and I can't just up and quit because I don't feel like paying a tax. I don't have property there that is being defended, I get no benefit from those tax dollar whatsoever.

And when you come down here, we don't peg you as a "New Hampshire-hole," or whatever ridiculous epithet one of our third graders could cook up while bored and nothing good was on television.

Therein lies the point, genius. Get it?

[Durus]

You don’t peg us as anything (other then hicks and cowhampshirites) because we generally aren’t rude, don’t drive like maniacs, and we don’t move to your state and infect it with creeping socialism. MA residents and transplants earned the name it wasn’t spawned out of boredom.