State-Induced Xenophobia

In my opinion, state-induced xenophobia is as American as apple pie or Reese's cups.  Wherever people live, they often have some degree of antipathy toward residents of nearby states.  How many people what mentioned West Virginia in terms of the peple there being inbred?  And what about the nuts of California?  Everyone expects New Yorkers and Texans to be arrogant pricks, and Bostonians are so proper in one part or Irish hoods in another.

And the term "corn-fed" is not complimentary when applied to midwestern farmers' daughters.

Americans are different: we're of both sexes, verious sexual preferences, races, ethnic stocks, temperaments, opinions, and so forth.  But the accidents of residency make up very little of what we are. 

I wonder if some people are just creative in their cussedness.