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.
I left out the NOT ! New Yorkers are NOT " pushy " ! Just what is " pushy " , anyway ? That they have to suffer through tons of gawping toursts, staring up at the buildings, and halting traffic , so they walk around them grumbling ? That they don't accept shoddy products, bad service, stalled traffic, or failure without complaint ?
The same can certainly be said for Californians. Native Californians once upon a time had the reputation of being laid back, down to earth and pretty friendly. Actually the natives still do, but it's the majority of the transplants (and their offspring) that have become rude and obnoxious. California used to be conservative (remember "Reagan Country?") but the rude, arrogant and obnoxious liberals totally infested the state, and now it is a huge dump. (gee, imagine that).
Once, a long time ago, California had a reputation of having the most courteous drivers in the country. Uh uh, no more. They all drive like freaks now. And they have had freeway shootings now, that was totally unheard of when I was learning to drive in the late 70's.
So I finally escaped California about 10 years ago to a nearby (conservative) state, because I loved all the people here. They were nice, friendly, and down to earth. 10 years later, it's slowly getting rude, obnoxious, along with the rude drivers and more and more vocal arrogant liberal attitudes!
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