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VonBonfire
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I worked in tourism for many years. New Jersey is bad, no doubt, but still third place. Anytime someone loudly announced Ohio or Michigan I knew that these were the trouble groups for the day. Like clock work. Couldn't figure it out then it dawned on me. Detroit, the collapse of motor city, and Ohio, the rust belt. All those lost jobs meant lost families, lost dreams, and lost lives so what's left is a higher percentage of people with trauma and drama as core parts of their existence. I will say that working class NJ people remind me most of black people from the hood more than any other group of white people. Nothing cuts across a room like a Jersey accent.They can't be worse.