And you shouldn't apologize.
It's OK to come from a state where the joisey gals make the females from WV look like Rhodes Scholars.
No one questions the toughness of jersey men, they have to be tough to get along with housewives from joisey.
But you have to face the fact that every major city in NJ is a crime ridden, demonRAT shit hole and the smell that comes from newark is beyond hades.
One of the largest battles of the revolution was fought here, The battle of Monmouth Courthouse which saw the debut of the newly formed American Continental Army. Admiral William F. "Bull'' Halsey was born in Elizabeth, NJ.