Talk:South Jersey

message: This article's title should be changed to "South New Jersey", or, alternately, be changed to refer to the Southern region of the island of Jersey New Jersey was named for. Jersey and New Jersey are not the same. Just look them up. Referring to southern New Jersey as South Jersey is like calling the eastern part of West Virginia "East Virginia". What's next? The British making a show actually on Jersey and calling it "New Jersey Shore"? Jersey City, by the way, from my understanding, should not be "New Jersey City" as it was never thought of as a "new version" of a city in Jersey, but was instead so named because it was actually a Jerseyan city, by virtue of being situated in this "new Jersey". If I'm correct on this, that one should not be edited. The same goes for Jersey Shore, the show, but not for Jersey shore the shore, as an incorrectly titled thing (such as a TV programme) is still titled that, whereas the proper name for the so-called "Jersey Shore" geographical location is a misnomer and a shorthand used out of ignorance or carelessness.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:FE0:C000:1:EDED:325A:E94C:308E (talk) 13:41, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Jersey versus New Jersey

message: Does the actual geographic center of New Jersey matter to anyone?  Guess where it is, people...  5 miles SOUTHEAST OF TRENTON.  Shocking, yes?  Its right in... wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_centers_of_the_United_States  Famartin (talk) 07:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Geographic center of New Jersey

message: The South Jersey border is simply the northern border of Burlington County, running from the Delaware River to the Atlantic Ocean.  Yes, there are parts of Ocean County much further south than  parts of Burlington County but borders are rarely perfectly straight.  Most real South Jerseyans would not consider Ocean County part of the south.  Ocean County has been basically settled by refugees from New York.  I have heard, on New York radio, East Brunswick, in Middlesex County, well north of Trenton, referred to as South Jersey.  A New Yorker's view of New Jersey, and especially South Jersey, should not be considered valid in any way whatsoever.
About 25 years ago I took a linguistics course.  The instructor asked everyone in the class to say a little bit about themselves without reveling where they were born, lived or grew up.  After listening to me she asked if I grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, specifically on the SJ side of the Delaware.  I said yes.  She asked me where I was born, I said South Jersey.  She then explained to the class that people born in South Jersey, especially people whose families had been in SJ for several generations, nearly always said they had been born in "South Jersey" and not New Jersey.  Conversely she explained that people born in the northern half of the state usually said they were born in New Jersey, and not North Jersey or Central Jersey.  Over the years I have found her observation correct.  Ocean County people, many of who I am sure are very nice, do not in general have that same identification with South Jersey as do real South Jersyans.
There are not many people over 30 who were actually born in Ocean County.(in 1940 the population was 50K and now it is over 500K) I was born there as was my father and grandfather and great-grandmother and her parents at least. Most Ocean County residents are refugees from North Jersey so they kept the ties to Newark, Jersey City, NYC etc.(thus all the Giants fans) If the state had completed Route 38 from Camden to Belmar(Monmouth County)as originally planned as a freeway or at least upgraded Route 70 to 4 lanes through the Pine Barrens, I think that Ocean County would be more in the Philadelphia orbit. The highway infastructure is more oriented to Norhern NJ rather than Philadelphia.  The original 201/609 boundary is pretty good divider between South Jersey and Central Jersey.  But if the only choice is North or South... Ocean County is without a doubt South Jersey. Point Pleasant has more in common with Wildwood than Wildwood has with Haddonfield or Point Pleasant has with Verona.  Before the opening of the Parkway Ocean County was really not a part of NYC or Philadelphia influence, it was just a rural backwater. I would say like Cumberland or Cape May Counties were, just forgotten clamdigger counties.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.8.63.201 (talk) 20:39, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
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thread_title: File:Atlantic City, aerial view.jpg Nominated for Deletion

message: This section was deleted as OR regardless of the fact that every listen person has an article stating their residence in South Jersey.  It was then removed without comment.  The editor concerned with this should read the various articles, and if he doesn't see they link to SJ (which I have verified, having removed several unreferenced listings myself) he is invited to tag the relevant entries. μηδείς (talk) 04:41, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable South Jerseyans