Who hates whom

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Who hates whom:

funny.

"Ha-ha" funny or "peculiar" funny.

I've been to New Jersey once in my adult life - on a car trip from Long Island to Chicago (alone, in my Opel 1900, in 1974). I thought most of it was actually pretty.

[Copper]

Does Virginia really hate W Virginia?

I don't think so.

I think Virginia is more likely to hate Maryland.

And not all that much, mostly Baltimore maybe

[Catseye3]

@copper said in Who hates whom:

Does Virginia really hate W Virginia?
I don't think so.

I don't either, but we'll never admit it.

[Jolly]

I have to admit, each fall we have a Hate Bama Week.

[George K]

Looks like California is the most hated.

[Horace]

@george-k said in Who hates whom:

Looks like California is the most hated.

smug self-righteousness does that for humans, and it does that for states. Who'da thunk.

[Mik]

When I moved to LA in 1978 I found not necessarily self-righteousness, but this firmly held belief that they were in the golden land and that we back in Ohio lived in caves and wore bear skins. We just couldn't be as wonderful as they. I found it hilarious but just a little sad. I knew much more about what was going on culturally in LA and found them to be remarkably midwestern because that's where all their parents came from.

[jodi]

@horace the Californians get blamed for moving all those places and making housing less affordable. I’ve heard that ever since we moved west in the 1991, and I still hear it.

[Horace]

@jodi said in Who hates whom:

@horace the Californians get blamed for moving all those places and making housing less affordable. I’ve heard that ever since we moved west in the 1991, and I still hear it.

I can understand that. But at least the people who move out of CA probably aren't entirely indoctrinated into the culture, even if they bring their housing economics with them. The folks I'm talking about are California lifers, people born there and who will never leave, who have the most cartoonish, judgmental view of the fly-over states and especially the south. I've watched this phenotype express itself both in real life amongst my co-workers, and online. Nobody is more culturally ignorant than someone born in the bay area, who will never leave the bay area, but who thinks they are cultured because they live in the bay area. I've witnessed these people caution Indian co-workers to never visit the south because racism. (That's a subtle form of psychological abuse - convincing people they're surrounded by hatred, when they're not.) I've seen a white male CA lifer openly admit to being hesitant to travel the country because of all the harassment he would experience, as a liberal.

[Copper]

@horace said in Who hates whom:

people born there and who will never leave,

The big one is coming.

It will fix a lot of problems.