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I have lived in New York and other places around the country. I have long noticed that most people seem to have a negative opinion of Northeasterners, but especially New Yorkers. I have always thought it was just mere stereotyping, but after reading a lot of these threads, I am wondering this: is there an actual dislike of people from the NYC area or is it really just a stereotype? I am not justifying stereotyping either. I don't hold negative views of New Yorkers or any other group, and I ask that only respectful and thoughtful replies be made. This is NOT meant to be a troll thread or to start an argument.
If you look around the rest of this website, there is a lot of disdain towards non-Northeasterners by the Northeasterners as well. It's a two-way street.
I've got the double whammy going. I'm a native new yorker living in California. Conservative, Middle America seems to hate, and at the same time, envy both states
I'm from NYC, and thank God that people here in Central MD are pretty much around 95% transplants from the North or West Coast or are immigrants without a real opinion on NYC. Farther south (as you exit the DC 'burbs) or west ("Middle America"), I have seen a general dislike of New Yorkers. It's partially because of politics, partially because of accents, partially because of the rushed, busy lifestyle that can manifest itself even in vacations/trips/holidays, and partially because of all the attention that the city receives.
Well, I have always lived in the Upper Midwest, and I don't think there's that much of a prejudice against NYers here, except that people tend to think of them as rushed and maybe a little aggressive.
The place where I have seen the most disdain manifested for NYers is in the Southeast. I read it on the various state forums here on C-D, and I hear it when we travel in the Southeast. I am told that NYers (also folks from New Jersey and New England) tend to try to mold things in the Southeastern states to how they think that they should be, that they don't respect Southerners, that they assume that their way is better and want to more or less live in NYC/NJ/New England but with milder winters so they try to force their ways on the native Southerners whose families have lived there for centuries.
People hate New York because it actually is what they want to wrongly believe their city is. It's the same reason people hate Philadelphia, because they've been allowed to believe that they and the areas they come from are everything they say they are or want to be, and Northeastern cities/older Midwestern cities make them admit that's not actually true.
I never met a New Yorker I didn't like. But here in Oregon, Oregonians are supposed to dislike Califorians and I bet it's for the same reasons. For the record, I don't. But that's probably because I am orginally from Chicago.
The disdain is usually because new yorkers are from the largest city, they have a rushed attiude, sometimes they will talk very loudly because they are used to it and poltics as well. Personally new yorkers can be mean sometimes espically to anywhere not in the northeast (except philly) or the PNW. I told a new yorker i was from st.louis and she said ewwwww and then i asked her where she was from and she said new york but its not that great but its better than your cowtown.
People hate New York because it actually is what they want to wrongly believe their city is. It's the same reason people hate Philadelphia, because they've been allowed to believe that they and the areas they come from are everything they say they are or want to be, and Northeastern cities/older Midwestern cities make them admit that's not actually true.
I've never met a New Yorkers or Philadelphian in real life that thinks like that so I wouldn't hold much to that. I don't dislike New Yorkers. Just the Giants.
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