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

[cubes.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the laugh.

I grew up on the border of "Bankers and Businessmen" and "Where they filmed Clerks", but when I was a kid "McMansions!!" was still horse farms. :-(

Seems like some other parts have changed in the dozen years since I've been gone, but most of it is about what I remember.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the laugh.

Sure! Glad you liked it.