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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You're definitely a troll. [/quote]

Nope. But you are definitely not from Richmond. [/quote]

13 yr senior of St C but ok. [/quote]

None of my college friends or acquaintances from St. C have real jobs. Not one. Some have hobby jobs. [/quote]

I know, look at all these losers selling candles on Facebook, especially Lt. Col. Lauren Wagner Palagi.

https://cms.fnal.gov/jennet-dickinson/

https://www.st.catherines.org/news-detail?pk=541868

https://www.rocketstem.org/2014/03/12/kimberly-lichtenberg-spends-her-days-sampling-martian-soil-and-rocks/

https://www.library.upenn.edu/detail/person/kaylin-blount

https://www.inta.org/perspectives/interviews/keeping-up-with-change-track-leader-monique-cheng-joe-on-innovation-and-the-future-of-ip/
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NP here. I know Lauren (who is a bad@ss) and her sister (who is a biglaw attorney).

In my class at St. C, there are several lawyers, doctors, dentists, a minister, a google exec, some teachers (from PhD college profs to elementary school), an engineer, a policy wonk, lobbyists, a chief of staff at the Fed, a hedge fund executive, a dominion power executive, etc.  I think out of our class of 45, I know of maybe 2 SAHM but it doesn’t matter because it’s not a crime to be a SAHM.  Good for them.

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