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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NJ and CT are more similar than different.  Both have blighted cities and affluent suburbs.  Both have one Ivy League university.  Italian is the most common ancestry in both states.  Incomes, educational attainment about the same.[/quote]

As anyone with experience with both would know. 
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I grew up in Ct and went to Greenwich High School, attended the local Catholic Church. It was definitely not mostly Italian, but a mix of Italian & Irish (especially us Catholics) and then wasps, hispanics and AA families. 
And I had friends in NJ who were more Armenian / Ukranian etc - so similar but with a bit more variety.[/quote]

NP - yeah, I mean, Connecticut is 80% white to 65% in New Jersey.  That right there is a big difference.  NJ doesn’t have the super WASP-y reputation in any of it, maybe with the exception of Princeton.  They’re more similar than different, but the differences end up being definitive for people who don’t know any better.

It’s sort of like Maryland vs. Virginia - people think of Virginia as Southern while Maryland isn’t, even though they both are, technically, and both have much more in common than they do different.  And you still have people who are very loyal to one vs. the other, as you do with CT vs. NJ.[/quote]

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