At DC privates - Why are VA parents considered "inferior"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

the fact that you are on an anonymous message board screaming into the void about how terrible Virginia is on Friday tells me everything I need to know

Cocktail time!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

the fact that you are on an anonymous message board screaming into the void about how terrible Virginia is on Friday tells me everything I need to know

Cocktail time!

Idk I really liked that post

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

the fact that you are on an anonymous message board screaming into the void about how terrible Virginia is on Friday tells me everything I need to know

Cocktail time!

if only we had cocktails in DC... sigh... maybe one day I'll give up my walkable, close-knit community, easy commute and happiness and move to northern virginia wasteland of chemical lawns, HOAs, anger, sadness and resorting to drinking "Mommy's Juice" boxed wine to try and make myself feel better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

the fact that you are on an anonymous message board screaming into the void about how terrible Virginia is on Friday tells me everything I need to know

Cocktail time!

Proud Arlington resident here, but you're making it sound like you need alcohol to cope with where you live. I don't. I just need weed gummies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

the fact that you are on an anonymous message board screaming into the void about how terrible Virginia is on Friday tells me everything I need to know

Cocktail time!

Proud Arlington resident here, but you're making it sound like you need alcohol to cope with where you live. I don't. I just need weed gummies.

See, you are fun!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

the fact that you are on an anonymous message board screaming into the void about how terrible Virginia is on Friday tells me everything I need to know

Cocktail time!

Proud Arlington resident here, but you're making it sound like you need alcohol to cope with where you live. I don't. I just need weed gummies.

See, you are fun!

But I'm also inferior to DC parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had relatives at Jamestown, so I've been around longer than any of you n00bs... of course, my relatives were smart and LEFT Virginia very quickly because they could see that it was just going to turn into a state where you either have to live in some kind of creepy Confederacy cosplay routine OR suburban sprawl that is more expensive than New Jersey, but not as charming.

Face it, Virginia is where unimaginative people go to get a ticky-tacky mcmansion where they can spend their free hours nuking the lawn with cancer-causing mosquito treatments. That's why people in DC think you're inferior. Maybe it's not true, but we all think it is.

Yeah cause Maryland has completely avoided the McMansion/mosquito spraying craze.

Look, I think you are probably one of those upper NW people who think all non DC addresses are suspect. Gotcha. You aren’t my people either. You all are so uptight and competitive. Too many BigLaw bigwig a**holes. And your neighborhoods are weird to me. Virginia (and probably MD) McMansions are filled with families and often time big fun families, meaning neighborhoods consist of kids running around together and outside. And you get to know your neighbors. In Virginia, our friends go out on their boats on Friday afternoon and drink beer and play music. It’s more… fun. Life is generally easier and more enjoyable and less stick up your a**. But to each his own.

You guys asked why people think you’re inferior, not my fault you don’t like the answer.

I’m sure you have lots of fun. Kids play with each other everywhere. Your boat sounds cool, I guess. If only everywhere else in the world also had boats…

Anyway, I agree the Maryland burbs are also pretty shitty but Virginia burbs just stink of quiet desperation. Everyone I know who lives there says things like “Look, if I leave before 630, I can usually beat the traffic and the my husband gets the kids breakfast…” and then they point sadly at the MosquitoSquad sign on their lawn and they don’t say anything but their eyes show a lot of pain. So fun. The boat on the weekend. Paid top dollar for mosquito squad. I’m happy. No mosquitos. Fun.

the fact that you are on an anonymous message board screaming into the void about how terrible Virginia is on Friday tells me everything I need to know

Cocktail time!

*sips cocktail, points at MosquitoSquad sign with vacant dead eyes*

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread that came up when I searched for something. Is VA still no man's island to DC/MD parents? Are we still seen as climbers?

Hysterical that you revived this 10 year old thread. My answer would be that VA was the home of the Confederate and thus I have an entire out herb bias.

I mean, the only reason Maryland wasn't part of the Confederacy was because Lincoln nipped that in the bud, suspended habeas corpus, etc real quick after pro-secession rioting in Baltimore caused the first bloodshed of the war. I'm a proud Maryland native but let's not pretend that the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass doesn't have its own sordid past. Hell, the plantation that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin was in Bethesda.

To answer the actual question, I have no issue with kids/parents from Virginia, I just won't drop off or pick up my kid there on a weekday "Virginia friends are for weekends"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread that came up when I searched for something. Is VA still no man's island to DC/MD parents? Are we still seen as climbers?

Hysterical that you revived this 10 year old thread. My answer would be that VA was the home of the Confederate and thus I have an entire out herb bias.

I mean, the only reason Maryland wasn't part of the Confederacy was because Lincoln nipped that in the bud, suspended habeas corpus, etc real quick after pro-secession rioting in Baltimore caused the first bloodshed of the war. I'm a proud Maryland native but let's not pretend that the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass doesn't have its own sordid past. Hell, the plantation that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin was in Bethesda.

To answer the actual question, I have no issue with kids/parents from Virginia, I just won't drop off or pick up my kid there on a weekday "Virginia friends are for weekends"

Lincoln tried to keep VA in line too. Also, lots of people in VA still think the Confederacy is a going concern.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread that came up when I searched for something. Is VA still no man's island to DC/MD parents? Are we still seen as climbers?

Hysterical that you revived this 10 year old thread. My answer would be that VA was the home of the Confederate and thus I have an entire out herb bias.

I mean, the only reason Maryland wasn't part of the Confederacy was because Lincoln nipped that in the bud, suspended habeas corpus, etc real quick after pro-secession rioting in Baltimore caused the first bloodshed of the war. I'm a proud Maryland native but let's not pretend that the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass doesn't have its own sordid past. Hell, the plantation that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin was in Bethesda.

To answer the actual question, I have no issue with kids/parents from Virginia, I just won't drop off or pick up my kid there on a weekday "Virginia friends are for weekends"

Lincoln tried to keep VA in line too. Also, lots of people in VA still think the Confederacy is a going concern.

You ever been to northern or southern Maryland? Hell, ever been to Dundalk? Once you leave the DC bubble and certain parts of Baltimore, MD and VA really aren't all that different in the grand scheme of things. The average person living in NOVA has as much in common with confederate sympathizers as the average person in suburban MD does.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread that came up when I searched for something. Is VA still no man's island to DC/MD parents? Are we still seen as climbers?

Hysterical that you revived this 10 year old thread. My answer would be that VA was the home of the Confederate and thus I have an entire out herb bias.

I mean, the only reason Maryland wasn't part of the Confederacy was because Lincoln nipped that in the bud, suspended habeas corpus, etc real quick after pro-secession rioting in Baltimore caused the first bloodshed of the war. I'm a proud Maryland native but let's not pretend that the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass doesn't have its own sordid past. Hell, the plantation that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin was in Bethesda.

To answer the actual question, I have no issue with kids/parents from Virginia, I just won't drop off or pick up my kid there on a weekday "Virginia friends are for weekends"

Lincoln tried to keep VA in line too. Also, lots of people in VA still think the Confederacy is a going concern.

You ever been to northern or southern Maryland? Hell, ever been to Dundalk? Once you leave the DC bubble and certain parts of Baltimore, MD and VA really aren't all that different in the grand scheme of things. The average person living in NOVA has as much in common with confederate sympathizers as the average person in suburban MD does.

Yeah, but one of those states was actually in the confederacy. The other wasn't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread that came up when I searched for something. Is VA still no man's island to DC/MD parents? Are we still seen as climbers?

Hysterical that you revived this 10 year old thread. My answer would be that VA was the home of the Confederate and thus I have an entire out herb bias.

I mean, the only reason Maryland wasn't part of the Confederacy was because Lincoln nipped that in the bud, suspended habeas corpus, etc real quick after pro-secession rioting in Baltimore caused the first bloodshed of the war. I'm a proud Maryland native but let's not pretend that the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass doesn't have its own sordid past. Hell, the plantation that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin was in Bethesda.

To answer the actual question, I have no issue with kids/parents from Virginia, I just won't drop off or pick up my kid there on a weekday "Virginia friends are for weekends"

Lincoln tried to keep VA in line too. Also, lots of people in VA still think the Confederacy is a going concern.

You ever been to northern or southern Maryland? Hell, ever been to Dundalk? Once you leave the DC bubble and certain parts of Baltimore, MD and VA really aren't all that different in the grand scheme of things. The average person living in NOVA has as much in common with confederate sympathizers as the average person in suburban MD does.

Yeah, but one of those states was actually in the confederacy. The other wasn't.

What a totally rational reason to not like a state over a 150 years later.

Potomac had streets named after Confederate generals until recently. The Rockville historic courthouse had a Confederate statue until like 2017 too. It's just such a silly argument to make when the reality is it was culturally not much different and the lack of secession was a matter of convenience/strongarming by the federal government, not some hard fought belief in the sanctity of the Union. It sure as hell wasn't about their beliefs re: slavery, since MD is one of the only states whose de jure end of slavery was post-emancipation proclamation (and don't think the de facto end was any better). Read a book.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread that came up when I searched for something. Is VA still no man's island to DC/MD parents? Are we still seen as climbers?

Hysterical that you revived this 10 year old thread. My answer would be that VA was the home of the Confederate and thus I have an entire out herb bias.

I mean, the only reason Maryland wasn't part of the Confederacy was because Lincoln nipped that in the bud, suspended habeas corpus, etc real quick after pro-secession rioting in Baltimore caused the first bloodshed of the war. I'm a proud Maryland native but let's not pretend that the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass doesn't have its own sordid past. Hell, the plantation that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin was in Bethesda.

To answer the actual question, I have no issue with kids/parents from Virginia, I just won't drop off or pick up my kid there on a weekday "Virginia friends are for weekends"

Lincoln tried to keep VA in line too. Also, lots of people in VA still think the Confederacy is a going concern.

You ever been to northern or southern Maryland? Hell, ever been to Dundalk? Once you leave the DC bubble and certain parts of Baltimore, MD and VA really aren't all that different in the grand scheme of things. The average person living in NOVA has as much in common with confederate sympathizers as the average person in suburban MD does.

Yeah, but one of those states was actually in the confederacy. The other wasn't.

What a totally rational reason to not like a state over a 150 years later.

Potomac had streets named after Confederate generals until recently. The Rockville historic courthouse had a Confederate statue until like 2017 too. It's just such a silly argument to make when the reality is it was culturally not much different and the lack of secession was a matter of convenience/strongarming by the federal government, not some hard fought belief in the sanctity of the Union. It sure as hell wasn't about their beliefs re: slavery, since MD is one of the only states whose de jure end of slavery was post-emancipation proclamation (and don't think the de facto end was any better). Read a book.

It’s not the North who keeps bringing it up. I feel pretty good about the north having won it. It’s people in Virginia who are still pissed they lost/under the belief it’s not over.

Clean house of all your people who can’t admit slavery is wrong and that they got beat over it and I’ll consider moving.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread that came up when I searched for something. Is VA still no man's island to DC/MD parents? Are we still seen as climbers?

Hysterical that you revived this 10 year old thread. My answer would be that VA was the home of the Confederate and thus I have an entire out herb bias.

I mean, the only reason Maryland wasn't part of the Confederacy was because Lincoln nipped that in the bud, suspended habeas corpus, etc real quick after pro-secession rioting in Baltimore caused the first bloodshed of the war. I'm a proud Maryland native but let's not pretend that the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass doesn't have its own sordid past. Hell, the plantation that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin was in Bethesda.

To answer the actual question, I have no issue with kids/parents from Virginia, I just won't drop off or pick up my kid there on a weekday "Virginia friends are for weekends"

Lincoln tried to keep VA in line too. Also, lots of people in VA still think the Confederacy is a going concern.

You ever been to northern or southern Maryland? Hell, ever been to Dundalk? Once you leave the DC bubble and certain parts of Baltimore, MD and VA really aren't all that different in the grand scheme of things. The average person living in NOVA has as much in common with confederate sympathizers as the average person in suburban MD does.

Yeah, but one of those states was actually in the confederacy. The other wasn't.

What a totally rational reason to not like a state over a 150 years later.

Potomac had streets named after Confederate generals until recently. The Rockville historic courthouse had a Confederate statue until like 2017 too. It's just such a silly argument to make when the reality is it was culturally not much different and the lack of secession was a matter of convenience/strongarming by the federal government, not some hard fought belief in the sanctity of the Union. It sure as hell wasn't about their beliefs re: slavery, since MD is one of the only states whose de jure end of slavery was post-emancipation proclamation (and don't think the de facto end was any better). Read a book.

Not liking a state because it was a part of the illegal and treasonous confederacy is a very rational and legitimate reason. I don’t care if it’s been 4 years or 400 years.

Don’t try to tell people how to feel or what to think.