St. Louis has a native marker. They ask, “Where did you go to high school?”
Locals used this to categorize people by socio-economic class (private vs. public school), suburbs vs. inner city, & non-native outsiders.
Middle-aged men asking each other their high schools, like it still matters.
Joshua Lenon
I don’t know about city, but the year I clerked in Delaware, I learned there is a 50 layer onion of “you’re not really from delaware” markers and flexes.
Raffi Melkonian
What is the least culturally powerful city where people do the "you're not a real [local]" thing, because New York is very very far from the only one
