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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about first generation college graduates?

If a man has blue-collar parents, who is to say he is not culturally blue collar even if he is the first one in his family to go to college?[/quote]

This is my brother!  My siblings and I are first generation college graduates. My brother graduated top of his class from an ivy undergraduate and an ivy law school, and he married a woman who did the same.  She's lovely, and my family adores her, but she has had to adjust to our Trump loving father who barely graduated high school and can't spell (but runs a very successful business), and our hair dresser turned SAH mom.  His wife comes from east coast liberal parents like most in their peer group.   She's a vegan and my dad has cattle.  Honestly, the get a long great and from there was mutual respect.  I'm biased, but I think my brother could have married almost anyone he met at school because he's smart, good looking and self-assured.  Part of my brother will always be blue collar, and the older my siblings and I get, the more we all cling to the best parts of our childhood, like camping trips, rodeos, horse rides, ATVs, backcountry skiing, snowmobiling, country music - things that none of our spouses grew up with!  It really comes out in how we raise our children and the things we want to pass on to them.  My husband is more like me - he grew up in a farm town but went to great schools (on scholarship) where he started out as an outsider with almost nothing in common with his peers, but he's a joiner and fits in at the country club and in board meetings.  Most people who don't know him well would never guess where and how he grew up.  I've pulled the opposite direction and take our kids to grandma and grandpa's house whenever I can to go for tractor and mule rides, and I see similar patterns in my siblings' marriages, so our kids and their cousins live between two worlds.  I hope they get a great education, but also never lose the redneck culture of my family. [/quote]

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