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

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I remember sharing this over IM with you when I first saw it. I agree; some people just can't take a joke.

I know what you mean about NJ diversity, too. NJ was that way when I was a child, which at least gave me a rock-solid belief after I moved to CT that the racists there were the crazy ones.