THERE ARE NO AMERICANS more parochial, insular and culturally inbred than the Vill-billies of NYC. And considering what passes as culture there, based entirely on sales and appeal to the lowest brows, that effect is magnified. Simps is an extreme example of the type, especially ignorant and as vainglorious and chauvinistic as the worst stereotype of a vainglorious and chauvinistic Texan. I've never met a Texan who lives up to that stereotype, I've met scores of New York area guys who do. The only other people I've encountered to match it have been from Paris or London and they generally had better manners about it.
Most people who live in other places, especially in small towns, are under no illusions that they live in the center of the universe that itself then centers on wherever they've parked their ass. I've known innumerable residents of the lesser greater NYC area who live their entire lives under that illusion and are proud of it. NYC is the most over-rated locus in North America followed by Hollywood, the other pole of Simp's universe. I've never encountered a native Mainer who comes close in any of those categories, including parochialism and ignorance.
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