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[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]

But that's a very specific area and circle in Richmond. These people send their kids to St Chris/Catherine's.

I accidentally sent my one year to preschool with these people. My child was the only one not wearing Lily Pulitzer frocks. The teacher gestured to her clothes and said with a frown, "I love her . . . leggings?" I said, yeah, they're from Target!

We sent her to the Montessori school after that, where it cost 3x as much but not one looked down on my Target duds. There were no nannies picking up the kids while mom played tennis at the Country Club of Virginia. Just parents swapping stories about how to cloth diaper, etc.

It's easy to hang out in one circle and think it represents all of a place. There are plenty of people who aren't white/conservative/frock wearing/church going/etc. But if your circle is all one thing, then that's all you know.[/quote]

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