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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Northeast corridor has some of the most parochial people I've met anywhere, OP. Lots of people who grew up somewhere along I-95 between Boston and DC and think it's the center of the universe. There are many people here who have never visited a non-coastal part of the US but think they are worldly because of where they are from. I feel bad for them because they don't know what they don't know.

And I hear you on people in DC who claim to be liberal right up until it inconveniences them in literally any way. This is extremely common. Many are liberal because they have been to college and undestand the obvious logic of progressivism. But, again, because they are so limited in their life experiences, they often have not actually developed any real empathy for people different than themselves. So it's an intellectual position only, and thus fairly weakly held.

But most people are not like this. It's mostly very privileged people who grew up, went to college, and now work in this part of the country and have never had their worldview challenged by someone genuinely different from them. I have learned to internally roll my eyes at them but otherwise just let it go. There are bigger fish to fry, so to speak. At least they mostly vote Dem and aren't openly racist.*

*they are usually secretly racist[/quote]

Oh, yes. Those are the people who post here and say “I’ve lived in DC for 30 years and never heard of mumbo sauce! That’s not a thing!”

That was a real DCUM post. You can’t make this stuff up.

They love to be liberal as long as it involves wearing pink p5ssy hats, admiring RBG, and having a Very Important Job (and a Chief membership).

Truly sickening.

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Don't try to rezone their neighborhoods to one 2 miles away full of working class immigrants.   They like them as a talking point, but not as neighbors or classmates to their kids.[/quote]

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