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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m from Delaware.

I don’t have Delaware pride, exactly, but I find myself thinking about it a lot because I live outside of the DMV. Inevitably after someone asks where I am from (and why I say “water” and “quarter” like “wootter” and “quootter”), I then have to explain that DE really is a state and describe where it is (nope, it’s not next to Vermont).

And yeah, we’ve pretty much all met Joe Biden. He spoke at my high school graduation, his wife taught at my high school, and I waited on him in a store (30 years ago). He talks a lot.[/quote]

Hello, fellow Delawarean!

I have lived in VA more than half my life now, and really only lived full time in DE for 4 years during HS (it was my home address when I went to college in NC, though). I still think of it as my home state, though.

Some of it is because there aren’t that many of us, right? It is a bit of a unique thing. Some of it is the Wayne’s World joke ;p

I went to ES and MZ in Maryland and got MD state history at some point. When I got to HS, I did realize that my classmates had gotten DE history before that.

I am married to a former Texan. They have such a bizarre state pride.[/quote]

Oh it’s a delight to “meet” a fellow Delawarean!  I am so tempted to ask where you went to high school…
Mostly because, according to my CA born-and-bred spouse, whenever people from Delaware meet each other, they almost instantly start demanding to know “where did you go to high school?” It’s such a dinky state that I knew every high school - and the answer does in fact give you a lot of context about the person.

But seriously, don’t tell me where you went to high school. And I’m not going to tell you where I went. Because if we did then we could probably figure out each other’s real identity on this ostensibly anonymous board. It’s pathetic - the state is just that stinking small.

I deal with a proud Californian as a spouse. He fancies himself to be a laidback outdoorsy surfer. He’s actually very uptight and a bit clumsy, and insists on driving if we are going more than 1/4 mile because anything more than 1/4 mile is “too far to walk.”[/quote]

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