[quote=Kaga]
News to me. I mean I've seen people bash on California and the South and such, but not really NY before. *shrugs*
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I grew up in upstate New York, then joined the military and moved all over (but mostly in what we'd call the southwest, a little bit of midwest). 'Yankees' are a national whipping-boy, and most of it is deserved ([i]'LOL Y U WARE COWBOI HAT? LOLNOOB'[/i] [b]'Well.... I'm a cattle rancher..........'[/b] [i]'UR STUPID!'[/i]).

Lots of east-coast people in general, but especially northeast, have a certain opinion of farm folk. We don't keep it a secret, and they know what we think about them, and they rightly resent it.