As someone who visits NYC regularly and am sill fascinated by it the undeniable fact is the *typical* New Yorker is someone that “Middle America” has little use for.
Well, you might as well throw in every major city in America.
No?
I have visited many times and was asked to speak like a ‘barking seal’ for entertainment because I had a Southern accent. Very off-putting. Same when I lived in the UK....and ,generally, they had more disdain for Southern Americans. Not like they had a hand in the slave trade or anything. Naturally. That’s completely forgotten and projected upon US.