Culturally and literally, we are! There’s a small amount of people from NY that live here (majority rich people) but even in those towns, there’s a solid amount of true Nutmeggers.
I follow a few IG accounts that joke about NE life and they’re always talking shit about CT lol. They either don’t include us or accuse us of being a cheap version of NY because people not in the state can’t think outside of Fairfield County.
I’m used to people talking shit about us because they’ve never driven off of the highways, but jeez I’m such a New Englander culturally and I hate being excluded!
We are just as much NE as MA, RI, NH, VT, and ME. Honestly even more sometimes. The Connecticut lobster roll is better than ME and I’d die on a stake for that lol.
I’ll enjoy my NE culture in peace lol, but it does get frustrating feeling estranged from the culture because of people who haven’t spent any time in CT and don’t know anything about us.
Maybe I should just start reminding them that we wrote the Constitution lol.
