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For one, El Paso doesn't exactly have a horrible reputation in this state. That would be its sister city across the boarder.
Second, as someone already mentioned, no one really even think of El Paso that much in and outside of the state.
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Fort Worth is more insular, more homogenous, and less transient. So there's more stability. The only reason that city is on the economical map is because of its ties to Dallas... If it were in Abilene's spot, it would be... well... Abilene.
In NH it's Franklin. Crappy former mill town with an extremely depressed economy and drug problems. Horrible public high school and a very unskilled workforce. Only upside is that it's conveniently located.
Depending on who you ask, it is Dallas, Houston, Austin, Waco, or the Rio Grande Valley for Texas.
I think if you put a group of non-Texans in a room and asked them which city gives Texas a bad rep the winner would probably be Waco. Deservedly or not, the city is still associated with the Branch Davidian siege, and more recently it's been in the news for that idiotic biker shootout and the Baylor rape scandal.
Chip and Joanna are trying to give the city a makeover, but (for now) at the end of the day it's still Waco.
California has probably the most positive image of any state other than New York in the media. The only people who dislike it tend to be conservatives. If you are conservative, then San Francisco or Berkeley is detrimental to its image. If you are liberal, then anywhere worth mentioning doesn't have enough impact on the state's image to really be a factor. Bakersfield isn't the nicest place in the state but it isn't a place most people think about when they think "California."
The thing about Jersey is, it doesn't have any major cities, but several small to mid sized "bad" cities.
Newark isn't a major city? Newark airport is a major international hub, and most people who fly into Newark to get to NYC only see and smell the bad areas around there, not realizing how absolutely gorgeous NJ is, and how much of it is rural.
NJ doesn't have very many "bad" cities besides Newark and Camden.
Newark isn't a major city? Newark airport is a major international hub, and most people who fly into Newark to get to NYC only see and smell the bad areas around there, not realizing how absolutely gorgeous NJ is, and how much of it is rural.
"Major" in the sense of a sizable city that anchors its own metro. NJ is basically seen as suburban NYC in the north and suburban Philly in the south.
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NJ doesn't have very many "bad" cities besides Newark and Camden.
And Trenton.
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