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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard the term grit and even gritsy used when growing up in Baltimore in the 1980s-1990s. As far as I knew it, the term referred to kids from lower middle to working class families, particularly from the old farming stock that now eked out blue collar occupations and still survived in the older neighborhoods interspaced between the newer suburbs. The term didn't refer to the entire demographics but to a subset of the kids who you knew would end up losers in life. It was a demographic that seemed to have its own fashions and fads and habits and attitudes. I had a classmate who referred to her older sister as gritsy, and the girl was running around with guys who drove beat up old Camaros, partying throughout high school, have sex too early and did get herself pregnant. But she did marry the baby's father (at 19!) and last I heard, settled down to a life as a supermarket cashier while the husband became a low level mechanic. The younger sister won full scholarships to college and is doing very well.

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Agreed that it is a lifestyle choice rather than a fate of geography, race, or social class.[/quote]

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