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Not all people from the South. Mostly just white people from the South. I don’t like what the South stands for.
Election tomorrow in Alabama is a good example. people like Roy Moore. He is a typical Southerner in my mind.
I am fine with Florida transplants . Florida is just a strange place with unfriendly weird ppl and so many transients. That state is insane so I will not be hostile if you are from Florida.
Not all people from the South. Mostly just white people from the South. I don’t like what the South stands for.
Election tomorrow in Alabama is a good example. people like Roy Moore. He is a typical Southerner in my mind.
The transplants from the South are not the kind of people who like Roy Moore
So everybody hates the proverbial hipster from midwestern states like Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota (among many other) NYers are coastal elites and the idea of people from middle america that bring their middle america ways is terrifying.
However, there are transplants from other metropolitan enclaves on the west coast and cities in the northeast from DC all the way up to Boston.
Why are these hipsters off the hook? Are they not as annoying or maladjusted to the anti-gentrifier as Susan that grew up eating cow and cheese curds?
You do realize that "transplant" is just a euphemism for things that native NYC'ers find unNYC. That's all it is. Don't read too much into it.
The keyboard activists who rant on and use the term transplants the most are first generation Americans, so it's not like they have any real claim to NYC. You don't have that mentality, and I know you're a very open minded person.
True, are their parents from Jamaica or DR not real New Yorkers to them?
This thread is like that zen koan. If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Similarly, if transplants who don't understand what New Yorkers mean by transplants extrapolate on the subject, does it matter what they think?
BTW, sensitivity about the term, "transplant," is a key sign of being a transplant. Honorary New Yorkers (people who've lived and integrated into the NYC way of life to the point where they even know and understand the city more than natives) aren't bothered by the term. That's because part of being a New Yorker (honorary or native born) is toughening up and not being a snowflake. Besides that, Honorary New Yorkers integrate so well into NYC that no one ever calls them that term, since everyone assumes that they're from here.
Lastly, the hatred of "Midwestern" transplants started as a meme on various community blogs and news sites (Curbed, Gothamist, etc.) to show disdain for the hipsterfication of Williamsburg. People would make cracks about how everyone moving in was from either from Ohio and Kansas. But of course, being New Yorkers, you all already knew that.
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Not all people from the South. Mostly just white people from the South. I don’t like what the South stands for.
Homelessness is rare in the South. NYC has many 30% of the nation's homeless families, and a huge percentage of the Black population is living in the housing projects/on welfare indefinitely or incarcerated. So please tell me how Northern cities like NYC are even better when NYC is more segregated than the South and this includes k-12 education?
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