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Pineys for people living in the Pinelands of NJ. I've heard it used in a positive and negative way. Yes get away from the NYC area and the Philly burbs and its rural in NJ, in some areas, especially central and south still have lots of farm land or rocky hills in the north west and then the large section referred to as the Pinelands.
Hoosiers for people living just across the river from Kentucky in Indiana...The story I was told being there were big military bases during WW1 in Ky and the Indy girls were .... patriotic?. After the war all the little kids did was ask each other ...Who's Yours. Anyway, that is what my uncle told me long ago .
Georgia, North and South Carolina. Crackers, not a particularly nice word if your from the region. There was an HR manager for a soup company ( guess who ) who had the brass to go down south to the plants and say she was there for a meeting and called it "a disussion with soup and crackers". She thought it was funny. The locals not so much.
Pillbillys - poor people from the hills in Ky WVa and TN who traveled to places like FL to buy large amounts oxycotin from the "pain" management centers before a lot of them finally got shut down and prosecuted for what they were. That entire companies leadership should be in jail but thats another thread.
Mules - A southern lable I head in VA for older workers blocking younger ones from advancing. Nothing wrong with their work , often the go to people , just older, made more $ , more vacation etc. Needed to be gotten rid of. Problem was the younger workers never stayed very long, different generatons have different attitudes about career advancement.
Anchors. copy above not a good comment as might be initially suggested.
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"Benny" - a perjorative term used by year-round residents of the Jersey Shore to describe stereotypically rude, flashy, loud tourists from North Jersey and New York. Benny is an acronym for Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark and New York.
"The Bennys are invading"
Shoobie is another Jersey term for someone heading to the shore. Back when day visitors from Philadelphia road the trains to the shore and carried their lunch in a shoebox.
I'm surprised that doesn't seem to be a term for New Orleans area residents who vacation on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and the Florida Panhandle.
BUT in most of Louisiana, anyone from the New Orleans area that is disliked seems to be a "Katrina evacuee"!!!!!!! They are blamed for all sorts of problems in other parts of the state! I've heard this in Baton Rouge, Hammond, Lake Charles, and Alexandria.
People from NH/ME call people from Eastern MA, M*ssholes.
I dont even I can post what upstaters call NYCers lol
Flatlanders as well
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