Is "DMV" a low class / working class term?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, check your racism OP.

Because DMV is frequently used in the black community, I guess that makes it “cringey” for you.

No it’s not. “DMV” is a term used by transplants who come here from somewhere else. Natives don’t use it because we’ve always said “DC metro” or “metro area” or just DC. “DMV” is not l a black thing. It’s a non-native thing.

Stop trying to find stuff to get offended about, Susan. Focus on reckoning with your own abundant racism.

Actually, you're absolutely wrong. The term DMV came from DC. It was started by a DC based Go-Go artist. Stop acting like a know it all.

I’m older than go-go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, check your racism OP.

Because DMV is frequently used in the black community, I guess that makes it “cringey” for you.

No it’s not. “DMV” is a term used by transplants who come here from somewhere else. Natives don’t use it because we’ve always said “DC metro” or “metro area” or just DC. “DMV” is not l a black thing. It’s a non-native thing.

Stop trying to find stuff to get offended about, Susan. Focus on reckoning with your own abundant racism.

Actually, you're absolutely wrong. The term DMV came from DC. It was started by a DC based Go-Go artist. Stop acting like a know it all.

I’m older than go-go.

Cool.

[Anonymous]

Sometime when a random question pops in your head, you can plug it in the google machine and get an answer.

https://mocoshow.com/2020/11/17/the-story-behind-the-dmv/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, check your racism OP.

Because DMV is frequently used in the black community, I guess that makes it “cringey” for you. [/quote

Exactly. You don't even realize I think, but you appear racist and classist. Why do you even care? Do something better with your time.

[Anonymous]

I don't live in the DC area anymore and when I tell people where I'm from I either say Northern Virginia or The DC area but I would not say the DMV because nobody would have a clue what I was talking about, same with "the District".

I wouldn't use DMV anyway for any reason because someone might actually think I'd lived in Maryland or DC which is definitely not the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm upper middle class, have a graduate degree and work in a professional job, and have lived here for 40 years. I use DMV occasionally, and hear it among my peers. I would use it more if it weren't already a common acronym for the Dept of Motor Vehicles.
It's fine, and I would never associate it with a particular class.

Same. This is such a bizarre post. I mean if you associate DMV with low class status…doesn’t that speak more to your insecurity re: SES? Of all the dumb (and there have been so many) DCUM “is this low class” threads, this one might take the cake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not low class but it is a relatively new term that had not been used before 10-15 years ago or so.

that's probably why some people don't like it. I find some of the DMV area (ahem) a bit classist, with the new "new money vs old money" attitude.

OTH, I cringe when I hear people call CA "Cali", or SF as "San Fran". I'm originally from there. So, I guess I'm a bit of a snob about labels, too.

This. DMV doesn’t bother me at all. Lived here for 30 years. Don’t really say it much but will type it here. Grew up in San Francisco and despise “Frisco” and “Cali.” Those are terrible and would never be uttered by someone from San Francisco (aka The City).

I know plenty of people born and raised in California who use Cali. The aversion to Cali is almost always insufferable transplants who worry it reveals them to be transplants. We don't use Cali.

Native Californian here. I live in California and we really don’t say it. I never even knew it was a thing until my daughter went to school in Pennsylvania and was surprised by its use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

I’m working class and spend a long ti e in traffic while commuting, and I’ve never heard the term used in real life either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, check your racism OP.

Because DMV is frequently used in the black community, I guess that makes it “cringey” for you.

No it’s not. “DMV” is a term used by transplants who come here from somewhere else. Natives don’t use it because we’ve always said “DC metro” or “metro area” or just DC. “DMV” is not l a black thing. It’s a non-native thing.

Stop trying to find stuff to get offended about, Susan. Focus on reckoning with your own abundant racism.

Actually, you're absolutely wrong. The term DMV came from DC. It was started by a DC based Go-Go artist. Stop acting like a know it all.

Was it DJ Kool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

so Working Class is equal to Low Class in this poster's eyes?

people should look in the mirror when thinking about why Trump is winning.

[Anonymous]

It's used by Bamas.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?



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I agree.

[Anonymous]

Def cringy and kinda ghetto

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Def cringy and kinda ghetto

Well, that's racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Def cringy and kinda ghetto

Well, that's racist.

Definitely. Calling anything "ghetto" is super racist.