Answer:
The connotations are associated with the phrase "worked up" are:
* Concerned
* Anxious
* Angry
Step-by-step explanation:
To work up something or someone or to get worked up means to take sb or ourselves to a state on anger and stress towards an unwanted situation, then in the context it is explain that the new people are not wanted in the neighborhood and as the neighbors see their stability and kind of life threatened they become stressed, angry and worries about it.