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It happens every year about this time.

The people of New England, and more specifically New Hampshire, get bashed.

The word most commonly used is stingy.

These insults stem from news reports of an annual index that claims to measure how much people across the country give to charitable organizations.

And according to this index, New Hampshire usually falls to the bottom.

But as NHPR's Mark Bevis reports, new research has found that this image of the parsimonious New Englander is old, tired, and wrong.