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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in the DMV.
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Zero natives I know use this term, so hopefully this was posted as a mark of the opposite?[/quote]

Yeah, that's more of something that people who moved here after college, but maybe have lived here for a while, use.

If you grew up here you're too old for it to feel natural, even though it's been around a while.[/quote]

IME, most people who are from here do not have strong feelings on what you call the area. Its the transplants who put so much emphasis on what you call the area, whether you live "in" DC or MD/VA, what each town/neighborhood/etc. is called--it's exhausting. Those of us who are from here just call it what we call it. But DMV is definitely a transplant thing.[/quote]

The term "DMV" is local slang that became popular in the 1990’s. By early 2000’s it was in common use in local hip hop/go-go music. D.C. rapper 20Bello head it from Kibwe Galloway(go-go) and use it. Also Dre All Day in the Paint used it in promotions and the Target Squad with their "DMV Mixtape”.

The DMV had 3 code areas back in the day. So the 202 really did not capture the area but the DMV did. I have never heard of a local complaint I g about its use.

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