If you think that’s toned up, you don’t know me :)
And you are quite a sensitive fellow.
And why would I care where he’s from?
It would have no effect on my response.
MYOB is great advice to you :)
Posting on a public thread makes it anyone’s business.
Just you seemed to come down on the poster in particular, assuming poster was from a red southern state. At least, the writing made it seem so with “you” and so on, and that was after poster commented about New York so definitely seemed to be defensive.
I’m not a “fellow”, either. Again, check the bios and you might know something before you type. ;-)