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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This might be true only for the older Black DC Natives.  One of the first questions we might ask is: What High School did you go to?  While this is partly to see where our social circles might overlap, it also dates back to a time when there were only 3 public high schools that Black students could attend, preparing them for College, Business, or “tech” careers.

A second question used to be: Where were you born? As in: which hospital.

Transplants and transients don’t ask these questions, while natives almost routinely do. [/quote]

"Where did you go to high school?" is about the most townie conversation imaginable.  [/quote]

True, but people who didn’t grow up here don’t usually ask it early on, and even people who did don’t usually do it in the top 2-3.  It’s a “townie” question that usually only has relevance for people from the same “town”.  “Where are you from?” “What do you do?” and maybe “Where did you go to school?”— meaning college and graduate level usually get asked first — by people not from the area, at least in my experience.  Transplants care where I went to college and grad school.  DC Natives care where I went to HS.  [/quote]

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