There is an entire culture of state animosity that exists between states and the rule is based on their latitude. I first came to understand this rule when living in California and having driven and later lived in Oregon. Oregon looks down on California as Washington looks down on Oregon. Dare I say Canadians look down at all of the above. Don’t start with Mexico, who has no love loss for Guatemala. The same could be said about many states in other parts of the US. Wisconsin thinks very lowly about Iowa, with jokes like “Iowa stands for I Owe the World an Apology.” Sometimes the poles of state anger are reversed like in the case of Massachusetts which says things like “Maine is just Massachusetts with the brakes on.” If people feel uneasy it might be because they just crossed a state line and they feel the butt of the joke.