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In my college years I worked at an overnight summer camp in the mountains where the overwhelming majority of campers were "legacy" kids whose parents and even grandparents had attended in decades past and were generally from "old money" families throughout NC.
The standard-bearer addresses those kids were coming from were in ITB Raleigh, Myers Park Charlotte, whatever the base zone is for "Grimsley High School" is in Greensboro, and "Reynolda area" of Winston.
There was also a surprisingly well-represented group of legacy campers from Hickory & Lenoir
No joke...there was ONE session every summer in early August where Cary-kids dominated. It was everyone's least-favorite session. (I would have fallen into the Cary-kids category when I was growing up FWIW )
Hickory and Lenoir aren't totally surprising because of their history of furniture manufacturing. Just like a lot of the other smaller cities with old money families, that wealth, relative to the rest of the community's population is found among a small portion of the population.
In a lot of those blue collar cities with legacy industries, most of the community is in a working class income bracket. While not in dire poverty, they are barely scraping by and don't have much extra money. They're lucky when they can pay for their essentials of basic housing, utilities, groceries, and if they're really lucky, health care.
What was it about the Cary kids that was so off-putting?
While I really didn't know anything about it before I went to State for college, I soon learned that having gone to Reynolds' for high school in W-S was a "thing".
While I really didn't know anything about it before I went to State for college, I soon learned that having gone to Reynolds' for high school in W-S was a "thing".
Yes; Reynolds in Winston and Grimsley in Greensboro are like Broughton in Raleigh or Myers Park in Charlotte.
While I really didn't know anything about it before I went to State for college, I soon learned that having gone to Reynolds' for high school in W-S was a "thing".
The funny thing is that having moved to Raleigh as I was entering junior high in Raleigh, and living in north Raleigh, I didn't even know that going to Broughton was a "thing" either. LOL
The interesting thing about Durham is that it doesn't seem to have as many old money neighborhoods apart from Forest Hills. And Durham was bigger than Raleigh until the 1950s.
The interesting thing about Durham is that it doesn't seem to have as many old money neighborhoods apart from Forest Hills. And Durham was bigger than Raleigh until the 1950s.
Sounds like it was more about who was living in each city, rather than how many there were. Raleigh was never the manufacturing town that Durham was.
The interesting thing about Durham is that it doesn't seem to have as many old money neighborhoods apart from Forest Hills. And Durham was bigger than Raleigh until the 1950s.
Hope Valley is THE old money neighborhood in Durham.
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