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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:25 PP here.  By responding this way,  I realize I sound like I'm penciling out Black families. Not my intent. I just wanted to highlight the rarity of white District families in the period following the riots of the late 60s.

Black multigenerational Washingtonian families are much more common and those who I've known are not so insular and aloof as the white ones. [/quote]

I have white family members who moved to DC in the early 60’s who lived in Woodley Park and stayed, but I agree they are rare. Also, I don’t think they consider themselves “DC natives,” even the ones that were born in DC. The still think of themselves as natives of the state their family came from. This is true of most of my friends.  People who were born and raised in DC still think of themselves as natives of wherever their parents were from (my kid is like this). I have black friends who are from multigenerational DC families, and they consider themselves to be “DC natives.”

It’s funny, because people they occasionally do polls in Texas, and a substantial portion of the people who’ve lived there for any time will respond that they are “Native Texans.” DC is whatever the inverse of that is. [/quote]

Agree.  Some locals (maybe just suburban people) get their panties in a twist because they want to think that people who were not born and raised in the DC area are from podunk (see PP). When they determine that is (most definitely) not the case, they react even more strangely.  God forbid someone is from NYC (again see PP) or similar. [/quote]

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