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State where poster attended college and first encountered WASP culture, contrasted with growing up around Italian-Americans and Latinos.

Mentions (14)
"Last night I boarded a train from Connecticut to New York. It was packed with tanned frat bros wearing polo shirts with popped collars. This one dude was in a white Ralph Lauren emoting and chugging a light beer and proclaiming "this is my year, bro" and I felt like I wandered into an 80s American c"
America is surreal as an immigrant · blue_dice · ↑827 · 2022-08-13
"You uprooted your family, your life, separated your children from their friends to move to be here and you can't get through a pleasant conversation without denigrating it. Stop acting like you showed up here because a gale blew your ship off course. Most be what everyone in the west feels about Cal"
"Within the past 48 hours: Delaware, Connecticut, Oregon, Illinois, Nevada, New York and California all announced the end of their mask mandates."
The 2022 Mask Exodus · u/TurnASphereInsideOut · ↑304 · 2022-02-11
"I hadn't met WASPs until I went to college in Connecticut."
Wealthy Desis are culturally indistinguishable from WASPs · u/sfaccim420 · ↑157 · 2023-06-10
"Apparently she was 5150'd after moving to LA (she's from Connecticut, and left LA and moved back home after that) after making some friends there that basically got her away from her mother and interventioned her."
Recently found out who Eugenia Cooney is · jizzlayne_maxwell · ↑66 · 2022-03-08
"I grew up in 2000s Connecticut, a blue state that is at the same time both "progressive" and painfully straight. K-6 LGBT people weren't mentioned at all, in 7th and 8th grade the only thing mentioned was "oh yeah, gay people were persecuted in Nazi Germany too""
What did you actually learn about LGBT people in school? · u/lemonthewombat · ↑50 · 2022-04-06
"The gal was really sweet, the guy was kind of a lovable douche. She was very matronly, and he was one of those people who managed to grow up 'poor' even though his mom is the president of a Connecticut private school."
Folk Punk Poly Drama · u/tracymorgansjoker · ↑46 · 2023-01-09
"They live in Connecticut so at the end of the day the only political thing they really care about is taxes lol."
Out of curiosity what's your parents political views · u/lemonthewombat · ↑45 · 2021-09-08
"The two whitest states- Iowa and Connecticut- will battle it out for a chance to face South Carolina next week. Stay tuned for the final installment of women's basketball race war."
Women's basketball race war · u/Teedo4133 · ↑30 · 2024-04-02
"She recently told me that with my salary she thinks we should get married and move to New Jersey or Connecticut in a few years to start a family"
I Can't Tell if My Friends Are Sabotaging or Helping Me · u/MyBoyIgnatiusLoYOLO · ↑29 · 2023-09-26
"I grew up in Connecticut, a solid blue state that legalized gay marriage way back in 2009 and was where trans athlete discourse was first put on the map, however people there in general were very cold and stand-offish, and there was always this weird unspoken animosity towards anyone who was non-str"
"for context, i've lived in the netherlands (grew up in utrecht), connecticut, charleston sc, and then raleigh."
raleigh is the sunken place · u/Bingowithbob · ↑54 · 2025-07-10
"The two whitest states- Iowa and Connecticut- will battle it out for a chance to face South Carolina next week."
Women's basketball race war · u/Teedo4133 · ↑30 · 2024-04-02
"I grew up in Connecticut, a solid blue state that legalized gay marriage way back in 2009 and was where trans athlete discourse was first put on the map, however people there in general were very cold and stand-offish"
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