is the "jersey" stereotype outdated?

[freepcrusher]

after seeing the movie "Jersey Boys" I see how the entertainment business has profited off the marketing of the "joisey" cliche. The question is, is that an outdated stereotype? My opinion is that "jersey" isn't really a correct term and what they are really talking about is "bridge and tunnel".

I also think that the core of that stereotype died probably a half century ago and part of it has to do with the breakup of those neighborhoods as the residents died off (or moved to Florida) and the children moved away and outsiders moved in. I would say there are still stereotypical "jersey" places but that they're actually in New York - places like Howard Beach, southern Staten Island and even outside the city in somewhere like Massapequa.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

No representation of New Jersey in mass media has ever been anywhere close to accurate.  The "Jersey" stereotype is outdated?  It was never indated! 

[rpryor03]

No representation of New Jersey in mass media has ever been anywhere close to accurate.  The "Jersey" stereotype is outdated?  It was never indated! 

[Flake]

The stereotype isn't common, but it's far more present in North Jersey than South Jersey

[Simfan34]

And what is that stereotype?  Though I feel like all the movies there have narration.

[pikachu]

I live in Central Jersey and all the people I've met fitting the stereotype were from NYC.

[bedstuy]

Do you mean guido types?  They still exist for sure. 

It's not New Jersey exclusive.  Certain parts of NYC (Staten Island, Howard Beach, Marine Park, Bensonhurst, Italian/Irish Queens), lower-middle class -middle class Long Island and Westchester have guidos too.  Really, the New Jersey stereotype is mostly Lower-Middle class Italians from the NYC suburbs.