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[quote=Anonymous]My husband has a PhD and a great career and grew up in rural Kentucky.  The bane of his existence is people like you.  One of my asinine friends said to me "oh I can't believe someone from [i]Kentucky[/i] would be good enough for [i]you[/i] when we got engaged--what does that even mean?

While his upbringing was quite a bit different from mine in many aspects, as I grew up in an upper middle class family (attorney father, mother with a masters degree, lived in affluent suburbs with good public schools, went to a private college) and he grew up more in a working class  family (father had a blue collar job, grew up in a place where a lot of his peers didn't even go to college) and my in-laws are much more religious than my family, it's not like his family is a weird alien species with whom it is impossible to communicate (ok, maybe my FIL is, but he just has a lot of issues).  It's also not like this is unique to him being from Kentucky; he could have grown up in rural Maryland or Virginia and we would have a similar difference in upbringing in terms of class, etc.

Kentucky is also culturally different depending on where you are in Kentucky.  There's a huge difference between the demographics of some neighborhoods in Lexington or Louisville (which can be extremely educated and cosmopolitan) and the dirt poor Appalachian areas in Kentucky. I would think that if someone just moved from Kentucky, they probably have educated parents who relocated to the DC area for work, and in all likelihood, are more likely to value education, careers, etc. in a way that isn't all that different from the way most parents on this board value these things.

Also as someone who grew up in a non-religious family, I attended mass, synagogue, and church with friends from time to time.  There's nothing wrong with being exposed to the fact that other people have different religious traditions than you do. I also think this sounds like a completely innocuous social gathering to me.[/quote]

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