I’m a moved-here Coloradan and I am quietly smug. OTOH, I grew up in Jersey, so I’ve never had the opportunity before. Having now spent half my life in the Rockies, I think it’s the best, but I don’t look down on any state but Texas. 
I knew all that about Da Yoopers and Bananas at Large. I’m not alone in this.:eek:
They’re from Gainesville, Florida. I guess they are restoring the equilibrium upset by Creedence Clearwater Revival, who were Californians who constantly sang about the swampy Gulf Coast.
New York has one or two.
We Coloradans despise Texans and Californians because they don’t know how to drive in the snow. They move here, and then the first time they see snow, they mess things up for everybody else.
We do tend to quietly laugh at people who think that 5,000 feet is “high.”
But we’re not all that smug–it’s just that we literally look down on the rest of the nation. 
Queenslanders. They think everyone from the other five states and two territories would move there if only they could.
Fucking Californians. They generally don’t brag about their state directly but when you get a transplant you hear a lot of “In California we do it this way!” or “In California we have…!” Maybe I’m just being overly harsh. Maybe California is so different from the rest of the states that they’re experiencing culture shock.
When we lived in Colorado Springs my father went down to Texas purchased an El Camino while he was down there and brought it back home. We were sitting in traffic when someone shouted “Go home Texan” and it was the first and only time I’d ever heard my father stick his head out the window and swear at someone. If it makes you feel any better we had lived in Germany before moving to Colorado and he already knew how to drive in the snow.
New Yorkers, IMHO, partially redeem themselves by being, in their own way, oddly inclusive. While to be a true Texan you have to be born in Texas, New Yorkers don’t actually expect anyone to originally be from New York. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. As far as they’re concerned, so long as you’ve paid your security deposit, you’re one of them.
I’ve lived in South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, so I’m still waiting to get to a humble state.
I have noted that Texas and South Carolina are they only states with a popular “symbol” that they put on everything to sell.
North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit.
-Unknown
Given that the only state one should be proud of being from is Michigan, I’d say there’s a 49 way tie for first place.
It does help though if you can claim NYC survival vouchers. Not sure what the current point system is, but you get them for things like
- being mugged
- propositioned by a hooker (double for a tv hooker, triple if he hasn’t shaved)
- had a vehicle in your possession towed
- walked more than 10 blocks (counting streets, Avenues count double) in the rain because you couldn’t get a cab (freak!)
- had a friend from out of town grab your arm when they heard gun fire and you screamed - because they’re the one that startled you, not the gun fire.
I live in Louisiana and I agree that we have more than a logical amount of pride in our state.
I don’t really understand this - as a Californian, I’ve driven in snow since I’ve been driving. We have plenty of areas where it snows. Good skiing, too.
Obviously whoever wrote this didn’t have the chance to meet a resident of the Outer Banks.
While I agree with Texas wholeheartedly NYC is pretty stuck up too. And it’s a dirty, filthy city. Sure absolutely it’s a wonderful place too but I’ve never been to a city in the West as downright dirty and smelly as NYC - especially the subways!
I think Forbes came out with an article a few years ago proclaiming NYC as one of the worst places to live. I know I would never live there unless I could afford a high-rise overlooking Central Park and maybe not even then. And I’m a new Yorker.
As for Colorado the only place I’ve heard really smug is Colorado Springs and their damned weather.
I wish they all could be California girls. As apposed to All my exes live in Texas. Still, Texas did contribute “You’ve got your dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinking to high heave.” Not to mention Jax beer—a Texas beer that makes excellent paint remover.