Hi mikehall12382.
Let me put it to you this way: If you had to be pulled over by law enforcement at 1am with your yarmulke and tzit tis and all, would you prefer, A. New York, B. New Jersey, or C. Tennessee?
All them states down there ARE weird and the rest of the country knows it.
In fact, someone once said that if a UFO landed in America and the president gave the alien leader a tour, they would lock up some of those states in their room, so as not to embarrass the rest of the country.
Far as I am concerned, you can add Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, and a few others to that list.
Also, no one was criticizing the Jewish communities down there, which you seem to feel you had to defend as being lovely, which we are all sure they are.