WADR, the New Jerseyites today are NOTHING like the people of New Jersey back then.
How so? You’re making a blanket statement based on your own prejudices and in the process displaying your intellectual shoe size.
New Jersey gave legions of it’s sons from the Revolution, The Civil War, WW1(my grandfather barely survived that) to WW2(uncles of mine barely survived that too as did my father-in-law) so think before you go bad mouthing your fellow American from any point on the compass.