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Originally Posted by BigRedBeta
I you've ever known people from St. Louis, the single biggest determining factor of whether they can be friends with another St. Louis resident is what high school they attended...Seriously, they ask each other this question within seconds of finding out they're from St. Louis, even non-St. Louis people can gain cred by saying "I don't know what it means, but I know that I'm supposed to ask you what HS you went to in St. Louis" and they'll tell you! This school is going to have a stigma attached to it for a long time...
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It's so weird! My ex was from STL, and he was so into where people went to HS...ten years later! It's not even just public schools--apparently you can tell a lot about someone by which all-girl's Catholic school they went to. STL, at least to me, was extremely segregated by class AND race. Supposedly, you could tell what "kind" people were based on what mall they shopped at. It was ridiculous.