Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been disappointed taking golf trips along the southeastern seaboard expecting to meet locals and their honey dipped accents and encountering one refugee Yankee staffer after another. Typical profile: they think they know it all...every joke they tell is supposed to be hilarious etc.
On occasions when they are asked why they’ve migrated south, the reasons are invariably cost of living/taxes/crime/property. Statistically a significant percentage of them must have been the ones voting liberals into power for decades yet apparently they don’t see the irony. The RI island guys are especially odious. Is there something about a small state that produces obnoxiousness?
Not all yankees transplants are bad. :-D There are sizable minorities in the north and south who should switch places with each other. The same goes for California and even in Texas. For example. there are a lot of recent arrival Californians in my Texas neighborhood. Luckily for us, most of these new arrivals are conservatives who gave up on their failed state or origin. Some states, such as North Carolina, are not so lucky in that it seems to be getting a lot more die-hard liberals than we are.