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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's like I'm a weirdo if I tell people "I'm a New Yorker" if I am not even from New York.  Weird!!!  Does not matter how many parkways or museums or restaurants I know.  I'd be an imposter[/quote]

New Yorkers aren't as possessive of NY as Washingtonians. If you live in the City for three decades you definitely call yourself a New Yorker. It's a state of mind as much as place of residence. -New Yorker [/quote]

The irony, of course, is that the multiple generation Washingtonians ("my grandparents and great grandparents are buried here!") as descendants of settlers on Indigenous land. Not that they would ever think about that, despite their "liberal" bona fides.[/quote]

Every smidge of land in America is Indigenous land. The Dutch claimed New Amsterdamn without regard to Indigenous tribes too, so this is not a NY vs DC thing as a weird way to position it. There is no where, here, that was not claimed by some if not many tribes. 
It’s not ironic, it’s a fact. 
Also, before DC was DC (1790s) it was Maryland. 
So even multi gen Washingtonians (Me, Hi, 7th gener here) are by way of Maryland on stolen land (12 gen counting MD settlers)

just because the King gave Lord Baltimore land, it was guess what, Indigenous land and not the King’s to hand out. 
Most of us get that, but again, it’s not ironic, Alanis. [/quote]

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