re: #261 wheat-dogg

I experienced that kind of hate, though in a very small way, when I met a Southerner who, after I told her I was from New York, said, “Oh, so you’re a Yankee” with a tone of absolute scorn and derision. And she was not a oldtimer, but someone about my age at the time, 25. It was the first time I’d ever experienced that kind of hatred. As a white guy, I suppose I got off easy. I can only imagine her reaction if I’d been a black guy from New York.

What I’ve observed here in Va is a lot of the multi-generational and likely more conservative individuals resent liberal NOVA because a lot of us are transplants or in my and my parents’ case the children and grandchildren of them. I’m a Virginian but I definitely still do identify with Pennsylvania a little.