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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Culturally pretty southern. My BFF and my nextdoor neighbor are both from Richmond. They both wear pearls, pastels / Lily Pulitzer, Jack Rogers or Tory Burch sandals, and generally exude a Southern sorority girl vibe. My neighbor dresses her kids in smocked, embroidered outfits for every holiday and has oil paintings of her kids - very similar to our family friends in North Carolina. They are ALL about things like baby showers, meal trains, and all the traditional homemaker / Pinterest things I associate with southern women, Mormons, and stay at home moms. [/quote]

It sounds as though when you see "southern," you only hear "white southern."

I'm not saying you're the only one on this thread who does that, but it's pretty telling. [/quote]

Southern doesn’t equal Mormon, at all.

Does your BFF know you think these things? Oh no, meal trains when someone is sick or dies?! Baby showers!  How nasty?!

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DP here. Actually Mormon wives and white Southern wives have a lot in common. [b]Big emphasis on homemaking and being SAHM’s, having at least 3 kids, dressing them in matching or cutesy clothes, and in general just having their entire identify being motherhood and their children.[/b] [/quote]

That does not describe the average Richmond mother, at all. GMAFB.

-Born and raised in Richmond[/quote]

Well I was born and raised in Richmond too and that describes every wife/mother I know who still lives here. Sure a couple of them teach preschool 3 mornings a week or sell some sort of MLM, but the rest is absolutely accurate. Also post endless on social media about motherhood. 3 kids minimum. [/quote]

Sure. Every woman you know who still lives there is a SAHM? All of them?

Not the ones I know, or my siblings or my mother or my grandmother. So I guess we cancel each other out. I call troll.[/quote]

I'm not a troll. Maybe your family isn't very well off? UMC married women in Richmond either don't work or have hobby jobs or work very part time. Especially the ones who come from families who have been there a very long time. [/quote]

OK, I'm a new poster who lives here (as a transplant) and your 3 mom friends are irrelevant to the OP's question, as the OP will not hang out with this dying breed of people, who are probably inbred too. In Short Pump, most families are dual income and highly educated. In some neighborhoods, the HHI pushes 1 million, because you know that the South Asian MILs expect highly educated and working DILs for their surgeon sons. Capital One, VCU Health, Bon Secours, the gazillion of law firms, CarMax have tons of women in leadership positions. Altria Group (former Philip Morris) has 40% women and POC leadership. There is also a sizable Jewish community in RVA. 
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