What most here forget, is that MOST New Yorkers are transplants ; not natives. The rudest people, are the newcommers. Real, born and bred new Yorkers are friendly, helpful, and won't give you wrong directions. You'll get misdirection and rudeness from those who are trying to live up to wht they assume will make them appear REAL to the tourists.
The regionalists, on FR, who complaim that peopele " make fun " of Southerners ( when NO ONE here does ! ) , are THE primier trashers / bashers of all others; especially New Yorkers ! The steritoypical slams , incorrect information, and slurs, are all delusional and patently ridiculous !
The most segragated and biggotted city I ever lived in, was Chicago; bar none !
I NEVER , the entire time I was growing up in the Northeast, heard anyone put down the South . Where you people get that, is beyond me . I played with and went to school with negros ( they weren't called " blacks " back then ) and no one, NOT A SINGLE SOUL , was predjudiced against the other.
If it weren't for N.Y.C., there would be NO musical theatre; not anywhere . There also wouldn't have been singable / dancable music, for most of the late 19th - 20th century, without " TINPAN ALLEY ", in New York !
These silly threads only serve to Balkanize ; they are of absolutely NO help at all . There are MANY nonSouthern FREEPERS, and by continually denigrating them, you do a disservice to Conservatism and FR ! You also make nonSouthern hating " others " begin to have a rational dislike for Southerners.