She's actually from Buffalo, but went to high school/college in NC before moving back to NY state, so she's at least from the area.

I don't live there so I don't know the whole story behind the "hipster takeover" but I've always felt that she was pretty genuine in her actions. Maybe what you mentioned are things that these people don't realize they are doing when they are moving into these areas. On the flip side, I knew several people that are the exploitative type of hipster, the ones who fight the battles for the blacks and the gays (when they don't want to start a battle to begin with) and ultimately do more harm than good because they want to be "progressive".