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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont?  One is chock full of preps and the other is not.  Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends. [/quote]

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club. [/quote]

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand.  And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.  [/quote]

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the Dc area. [/quote]

You cited the dictionary to substantiate a claim that is not backed up by the facts.  The Union Club in NYC is the OLDEST club in the city and it does not hold a candle to the prep nature of the “upstart” Met Club in DC. The Links is in the same boat. Columbia and NYU can’t touch Georgetown’s prep vibe.  Landon and STA kids look differently than Trinity kids.  NYC might be richer and older but Md and Dc have picked up a torch that NYC folks don’t carry in the same way any more.  [/quote]

Define “prep nature.”

I’m not talking about how someone dresses; I’m talking about lifestyle, upbringing, and the circles your family travels in. [/quote]

You will never meet anyone who has deeper roots in the classic prep scene that I think you are thinking of and I can tell you first hand it’s moved past where you think it is, dictionary be damned.  [/quote]

It’s moved beyond people going to prep schools and summering in places like Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton, and Nantucket, and spending winters in places like Tahoe and Vail? Not when it comes to the folks I know from prep school and college. Their families are as rich as ever and their vacation spots are the same.

I couldn’t care less about what people wear; that’s not what I’m referring to. [/quote]

Tahoe and Vail are NOT preppy.  Neither is Southampton. You confuse rich with preppy.  The cool kids get tattoos, slick their hair back and jump in Teslas in Vail while the preps put on flannel and blaze and pull out their custom Berettas and head to Oxford, Md. [/quote]

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