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An influx of East Coast students to Midwestern colleges like the University of Wisconsin-Madison has added a new bit of slang – ”coastie” — and some charges of anti-Semitism.

The A.P. explains:

The “Coastie Song,” featuring students Quincy Harrison and Cliff Grefe rapping about the coastie girls wearing tights, Ugg boots and North Face jackets, quickly became an Internet hit this fall. Tens of thousands of people heard the song on MySpace and saw the video on YouTube and it’s even available on iTunes….

 Some Jewish students object to the song’s references to a “Jewish American Princess” and “My east coast Jewish honey” who wastes her father’s money. Greg Steinberger, executive director of Hillel at UW-Madison, a Jewish group, said it was unseemly for Harrison and Grefe to profit from a song “made to purposely make fun of and hurt their neighbors.”

Harrison and Grefe, known on campus as Quincy and Beef, say the song was not meant to insult Jews. Harrison said in the song he is flirting with a good-looking coastie that he wants to get to know better.

“If anything, it’s complimentary,” said the 21-year-old from Bloomington, Ind.

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