New Jersey's regions, by Joe Steinfeld.

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Joe Steinfeld, via the Star-Ledger:

"I meant it as a joke. It’s tongue-in-cheek. It’s meant to be silly, meant to be fun," Steinfeld said Wednesday. He filled the map with stereotypes he said he encountered growing up in and traveling New Jersey, labeling a swath of Bergen County "Well-To-Do Conservatives ‘Christie Country’ " and parts of Salem and Cumberland counties "Pretty Much Alabama."

Originally from Westfield, aka "Middle-Class Raritan Valley Line Commuters," Steinfeld’s inspiration was similar online dissections he saw for Vancouver and Pittsburgh. A part-time Rutgers environmental science research assistant, he said he saw a lot of New Jersey gathering research as a student.

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Comments

[gee-tar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember seeing this a month ago and liking it in general.

Though I have a bone to pick about labeling Bergen County "Christie Country." "Well-to-do conservatives" sounds about right, but my impression is that Christie doesn't actually have all that much support in the area, even among Republicans (of which there are many). Probably has something to do with Christie's efforts to kill NJ Transit.