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I have an anecdote related to the Lawn Guyland accent:
A friend from way back (thirty years ago) was going to Wash U. in St. Louis and happened to put on Jeopardy in the middle of the show. As she was watching she decided that one of the contestants had a decidedly LI accent. Well, the contestant with the accent won and at the end of the show the host of Jeopardy made some small talk with him and the contestant gave a shout out to New Hyde Park his hometown!
True story. A few years ago, I was visiting The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee. I was standing around waiting for the guided tour to begin and as typical with these types of tours, the guide asked everyone where they were from. When asked, I replied New York, which I assume sounded like Noo Yawk. With comtempt in his voice (and I don't think I misread this) the guide replied "you sure are."
True story. A few years ago, I was visiting The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee. I was standing around waiting for the guided tour to begin and as typical with these types of tours, the guide asked everyone where they were from. When asked, I replied New York, which I assume sounded like Noo Yawk. With comtempt in his voice (and I don't think I misread this) the guide replied "you sure are."
No, you probably didn't misread it.
People in the other 49 states do not necessarily hold people from New York in high esteem. If you get pulled over in the deep South with NY plates, you're going to have a much harder time than someone from another yankee state. But you don't have to go that far. South of Mason-Dixon, even in Maryland, New Yorkers are usually considered more an infestation than a migration.
I don't think the reputation is entirely justified, as when Southerners visit New York City, they tend to get a bang out of the abrasiveness. When you're here, you expect it as part of the culture.
It's when people from New York go elsewhere and expect everyone else to change to suit them or complain in a vocal and typically New York style about the local ways that it becomes a problem. ("Oh, moy GAWD, it's so SLOW!") Unfortunately, it happens enough that sometimes all it takes to get an unfairly cold welcome is for one to open one's yap, er, mouth.
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I never knew that I had one until I left.
