🧩 BND Motif Index · M1127
Hometown ribbing
Neighbors rank and rib each other's states and towns, which is best, which is a joke, and argue with every map: nobody in New England likes New Hampshire, 'full of Massholes'; Virginians love North Carolina more than South Carolina.
- 2claims filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to ban student IDs for voting 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-25
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Nobody in New England likes New Hampshire because it is a mean, shitty place with messed up politics.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “It is a joke in the Allagash that everyone marries their cousin because there is nobody else there.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M1127 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works