I got more far crap from more people for being from Tennessee (why are you wearing shoes, what's it like to screw your sister and mom, did you really go to a one-room schoolhouse) when I lived up there than I did when I lived in DC and worked with a bunch of people from New York. Almost none of them have ever even seen mountains. I found it to be a campus full of kids who were generally pleasant enough but had no idea what the world outside is like.