NY Drivers

I need to get something off my chest.

Can anyone explain New York drivers to me? Let me elaborate:

I commute to work via the turnpike/Rt. 78. Now, invariably, and at least once, there is a car in the left lane doing 10-15 miles slower than everyone else. And invariably, this person is from New York. Is there a reason that they can't get into the right lane, which has NO CARS in it and let the ten cars behind them go the speed they want to go? This leads to people then getting into the right lane to pass, usually during on-ramp merges and other messy situations, because Jersey drivers are reckless and stupid. But the Jersey drivers aren't at fault here - they're just doing what comes natural. It's the NY drivers causing the bottlenecks and recklessness by not being in the correct lane.

Now, you might say that this is my Jersey bias coming out, but let me give a particular example of the New York obsession with the left lane:

There's one stretch of 78 East between exit 56 and whatever exit 1-9 is. This stretch is a condensed two lanes, no shoulders, and has two on-ramps almost right on top of each other. Bottleneck city, and I'm surprised there aren't more accidents there. So we're going 75mph, normal traffic speed. We pass the two on-ramps, and then all of a sudden this car goes from the right lane to the left lane and SLOWS DOWN to about 55-60 mph. There were no cars in front of him in either lane. No fork in the road forcing him to choose a lane. No reason for this whatsoever. He just decided to get in front of a flowing lane of traffic and make them all hit their breaks. When he finally did get back into the right lane and I passed him, I noticed: NY.

WHY???????

Don't even get me started on PA drivers... they're just crazy.