That is the truth! I am from upstate NY and my wife is from Long Island. We met in college in Buffalo. Upon my graduting from college a year after she did we immediatly moved to Raleigh NC. My mother in law and brother in law came to visit us a while after we moved. While driving around town (about 4 miles from our house) my brother in law spotted a field with cows in it. He proceeded to make fun of us for living in a "cow town." I pointed out to him that what he saw was part of a Vetrenary college. It made no difference to him. He kept making fun of us for living in "the country" and with "cows along the road." My mother in law finally spoke up a few hours later. "Marc, we got cows along the road back home too. Ever notice that farm on Jericho parkway?"
While it is not nice to say, many of the "natives" here in NC are absolute morons and uneducated boobs. Whenever a native asks me where I moved here from i reply "New York." Without fail they immediately ask me "what part of the city?"
Look you backwood, tobacco chewing, sister banging redneck hick, there is far more to NY than the fucking city! In fact, there is as much back wood redneck areas of NY as there are NC!
And you make the point so eloquently.
I go back far enough that I remember when Long Island was mostly hick potato farmers, and Kennedy airport was a swamp.
Also, upstate NY has more rednecks per square mile than the south ever thought of. The only difference is the yankee rednecks, are ill mannered and have an attitude problem.
That being said, I have lived many places in the US, east to west and north to south and I know all of us damn yankees cannot be so stupid as to move to and love an area that is worse than what we left.
Me thinks ,Your obsession with inbred rednecks and your choice of adjectives says more about you and yours than the genteel southerners .