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[quote=Anonymous]My experience growing up white in the 1980s in NOVA: almost all of my friends and classmates had parents who were in the military or some sort of government job. There weren’t many “rich” kids and not too many “poor” kids - we all basically lived in the same size houses with the same size cars, wore the same types of clothes, etc. Without glaring socio-economic differences between racial groups and with pretty similar home lives (some of you can attest that military parents are tough!) we all just....got along. My neighborhood had Black families, Asian families and Latino families. I think  if we were a small bubble of tolerance, It was because of our parents incomes.

By contrast my current friends who grew up in DC and in MOCO in the same era didn’t have the same experiences - a lot of the white kids went to private school, their parents had jobs in the law or lobbying.

Tl/dr socio economic status seemed to help make things less racist in NOVA in the 1980s.[/quote]

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