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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most natives don’t get wrapped around the axle about what makes you a native.

I was born in DC, went to school in DC, and because I lived a stones throw into Maryland some yahoo from Nebraska will mansplain to me that I’m not a DC native.

So, through my life I’ve concluded the only people who “care” as in care enough to correct and dig are the people from somewhere else.

I don’t GAF enough to tell you that if you’re from Grubb you’re not from DC but if you’re from Primrose you’re a native.

It did always seem like [b]Virginians had their own center of gravity and would rarely say “DC” rather say Alexandria or Fairfax[/b] - but Marylanders, even from outside the beltway, would say DC.  I think it’s about where your center of gravity was growing up and where the nexus of “stuff” was.  Virginia has a lot of areas not socially close to DC at all.  Whereas a lot of the areas of Maryland never seemed that socially separate from DC . I guess some of it is the land border but socially there seems to be affinity between Maryland and DC (both WOTR and EOTR) and Virginia was always different.  [/quote]

Because the both predate DC by ages.

I was born in Alexandria in 1970, raised in Old Town, and, like you, refuse to cede my native status to some millennial from Ass Blast, Ohio, simply because they think renting an apartment in Columbia Heights for a year makes the more DC than me.[/quote]

Lol I'm sure ass blast, ohio is not what they will be saying is their native status in a few years. [/quote]

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