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New Jersey
The Garden State!
My Dad was born in Newark, but grew up in Staten Island. Many years later, his mother and sister (my grandmother and aunt) moved to Manasquan. I visited them and surfed the shore. Some good surfing! Love the groins! I also worked one summer picking tomatoes at a relative of my late stepfather, who had a small farm in Jersey. 
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That's a great chart.
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Garden state no more. Towns bought all the farms to "preserve" them from us big-bad developers, and are planting solar cells instead of crops.
Born and lived there my whole life, however now I'm 60% physically, and 99% mentally done with NJ.
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'tis my home sweet home. I've been around enough to know this is where I belong. Besides, no decent state would have me!
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I left NJ more than 65 yrs ago and have never looked back.
I thank my lucky stars that Dad moved us west so long ago.
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My dad spent some time out here in CA after he graduated from college.
He said he drove on the Pasadena Freeway back in '48 in a Model A. He knew a good thing when he saw it so moved the family here in '55/56. I grew up in Santa Monica and consider myself more a native than some of the younger CA born kids/people I've come to know during my life.
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All pretty accurate, except the middle finger area extends way farther south.
The pork roll/ Taylor ham.... might as well make the state purple. Everyone argues over it. Except me. I don't eat that crap..  .
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And yeah it's a very accurate representation. I'm a hill person...or a hill Flatty.
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"Basically Alabama" Wow! That made me laugh right out loud!
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I thought fastfredracing was from Joizee, but PA instead.
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Think canoe trips and banjos... .
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Hill people here.
And the Alabama observations are accurate. |
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Especially the Rt 519 corridor all the way up to High Point.
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Born in Perth Amboy.. and I would argue THAT is the armpit of NJ, and rarely washed. you can reach out and "touch" Staten Island... idyllic
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Mom was born and raised in New Vernon/Green Village area - beautiful country - couldn't afford to live there now!
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1964 Porsche 356 C Sunroof coupe
1972 Porsche 914 2.0 fuel injected
1983 Porsche 911 SC Targa
Work vehicle
My former car
