DAVE BARRY, TO NEW YORKERS MOVING TO MIAMI:
I do not mean to suggest here that all New Yorkers are thoughtless jerkwads. Au contraire, as the French say when they are not talking about my parking feat. Plenty of New Yorkers are nice. Loud, but nice. I myself was once a New Yorker. I was even, briefly, a Jets fan, although I have petitioned the courts to have that expunged from my record. Nor am I suggesting that New Yorkers, as a group, are worse drivers than Floridians. Far from it. I have argued for decades — feel free to Google me on this — that Florida drivers, and especially Miami drivers, are the worst drivers in the United States, if not the world. I am confident that if we ever encounter alien life, even if it is a one-celled fungus, it will be better at driving than Miamians are. No, my point is not about driving. My point — and the reason we went “Huh” when we saw the license plate — is that lately there is a growing resentment among Miamians toward New Yorkers.
I wonder how New Yorkers would respond if they were flooded with Red State migrants?