Being a local at any seasonal place is a funny thing. From Hawaii to Cape Cod to Lake Tahoe, locals love to bitch about the folks who come to wherever it is they live. LBI, with its split of New York and Philly influence, gets both “Bennies” and “Shoobies.”

I’m not sure why summer people get offended by those names. On their own, they don’t signify any degradation. They are merely a nickname for folks from North Jersey and New York who come down in the summer, or those from the western part of…