No, I'm not from New Jersey. I once got a ticket there, though. I don't have much love for the state, having flown into Newark a few times. But maybe that's just a surface impression.
If you mean negative, why don't you say negative, instead of hateful. They call this city (Atlanta) "The City Too Busy to Hate"; that brings up to me memories of race riots and demonstrations and police dogs and KKK and everything.
To me, obsequious follower still isn't as powerful as hateful, but that's just me.
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929.
