Um what the heck is a 'DC-er' 🤮
Just when you thought Washington partisanship couldn’t get more contentious, here comes yet another wedge: the seemingly innocuous term “Washingtonian.”
“ ‘Washingtonian’ is trending because that’s what people in DC call themselves, when in Washington state we’ve been calling ourselves Washingtonians forever now?? Like pick a new name bitch lmaooo.” That last assertion is easily debunked: People from DC decidedly do not refer to themselves as DC-ites—or DC-vers, DC-vians, or any other absurd variation thereof. But what of the claim that Washington state has some kind of broader ownership of “Washingtonian”? Conversations with several historians confirm that this idea is not supported by recorded history. Our Washington was named in 1791, while the Territory of Washington—the precursor to the state—wasn’t formed until 1853.
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