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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to work in Frederick in the late 90's and I had to drive past a Confederate flag, in a yard on a flagpole everyday. This was 25 years ago but I have a feeling the attitudes are still there. Given the choice, I would go with Moco.[/quote]

There's a HUGE Trump flag and a HUGE 'women for Trump' flag at the intersection of Woodfield Rd & Fieldcrest in Gaithersburg, MD.

You guys want to judge a whole community by the presence of a few flags.  [/quote]

I think everyone knows that Frederick is notorious for their attitudes towards race. My white co-workers even called it Fredneck. Just so you know, it just wasn't a few flags. It was stickers on cars, t-shirts, tattoos. I saw the Confederate flag everywhere. After two years of that and the commute to Frederick, I was more than happy to be transferred to another office.[/quote]

Sure.  But the late 90s was 25 years ago.

MoCo used to be called the place for "rich people and [b]rednecks[/b]" [b]when I first moved to the DMV too in the late 90s[/b][/quote]
Nope, not true. You're definitely making this up[/quote]

Making it up?  The first time I heard that phrase, it was on DC101.  Elliott used it on his phrase when they were reporting on some story.

Then, we moved out of DC and into MoCo, and heard the phrase.  I haven't heard it in a long time, but "the rich and the rednecks" was a real phrase used to describe MoCo[/quote]
Again it has never been used to describe MoCo, and especially not in the late 90s. You're probably confusing Frederick, which used to be called Fredneck, with MoCo.
I have lived in the area for over 35 years.[/quote]

Congrats.  I've lived in the DMV for 25 years.  And I can guarantee you that it was called that, and especially for those of us that lived in the District at the time, that was 100% the perception of MoCo:

- [b]Rich people in Bethesda & Chevy Chase
- Rednecks in Poolesvile/Clarksburg/Damascus[/b]

And yes, the perception of Frederick at that time was also of Rednecks.  But there was no reason to say that 'rich people' lived there.[/quote]
That's moving the goal post from what you said earlier.
Everyone knows that there are rednecks in Poolesville, Damascus but that's different from saying MoCo used to be called " the rich and the rednecks", as if those are the only places in MoCo. What about the rest of MoCo (the majority of it)?
[b]I got to wonder what kind of people you frequent who only think of MoCo as Bethesda/Chevy Chase and the whitest area[/b]s?
Don't tell me[/quote]
DP
I wonder that too. Even now days when you say MoCo, the vast majority of people would not think of Poolesville or Damascus much less 25 years ago when most people didn't even know these places existed, unless of course you're mostly whites and ... rednecks.
I wonder what kind of crowd PP used to hangout with.[/quote]

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