What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

He left the self-conscious literary demimonde of New York for the quiet infidelities of New England.

There was a young lady from Gloucester
Who complained that her parents both bossed her,
So she ran off to Maine.
Did her parents complain?
Not at all -- they were glad to have lost her.

Another historical peculiarity of the place was the fact that its large mansions, those relics of another time, had not been reconstructed to serve as nursing homes for that vast population of comatose and the dying who were kept alive, unconscionably, through trailblazing medical invention.