The fact that it annoys you does not, ipso facto, mean much. The fact that you apply a derogatory term (carpetbagging) indicates that you're being disingenuous when you say "It is not a bad thing in inself." [sic] You DO think it's a bad thing or you wouldn't use that term. But exactly WHY you think it's bad you can't say except that it seems to boil down to "the place sucks and I don't wanna go back there but it's mine and you can't have it." I suspect you're also confusing an affinity for cultural artefacts with something else - your use of the term "wannabe" (another pejorative) indicates that you somehow think that when I sing "Coal Tattoo" I "wanna" be a coal miner. Nope. Wanna sing a nifty song. My great grandfather was a logger on the Vermont/Canadian border, but damn if I think Pete Seeger was a "Canuck wannabe" when he sang The Ballad of the Frozen Logger. (I happen to know he was a 40 year old waitress wannabe). Was Stan Rogers an iron-puddler-wannabe when he sang that song about the iron puddlers? My other great-grand-dad WAS an iron puddler, but I'm not annoyed at Stan.

I take your point that the annoyance is THERE; I just don't understand why, and I don't understand what anyone oughta do about it. Issue disclaimers?