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Read a few old posts with Uncle Tupelo and chuckled when I came upon a thread asking who William Needham Finley IV was. I remember seeing a funny map that was posted here once that I tried to find again without success. It broke the area up into funny sarcastic categories like north of 540 was "mansions in the woods". Anyone recall this?
They've been saying that about North Raleigh since the 1970s, when the majority of North Raleigh could have been called "IBM South" . Growing up in a Southern family in a neighborhood full of IBMers, going to flashy new suburban schools that were about 50-50 NC natives and transplants, I can say that I am "bilingual" in both dialects
Being the son of transplants (and I guess technically a transplant myself) growing up in Western Wake with overwhelmingly transplant/ "first generation NC" kids... ITB elitism wasn't even on my radar until I got to college and worked at a summer camp dominated by campers and staff from old-money NC families
Before that; the images that came to my head of "old Raleigh" were mostly the roller-coaster ride on the bus driving down Wade Avenue on the way to the museums for school field trips. Broughton was just that castle-looking Magnet School with ECU colors where you took the SAT and assumed most of the people who attended did so for the magnet program and not because they lived in the general area. College/Camp was also the first time I had ever heard Cary referred to as "Can't Afford Raleigh Yet" instead of the Yankee-affiliated acronym most often attributed to the town. Also the first time when I'd be like "oh yeah my friends from Raleigh High Schools"....and then the chuckles that would follow when I'd clarify they were at LRHS or Athens. lol
I grew up in the IBMville of north Raleigh after my dad was transferred to Raleigh with, wait for it, IBM.
Until I went to State, I had no idea that ITB was a "thing".
I grew up in the IBMville of north Raleigh after my dad was transferred to Raleigh with, wait for it, IBM.
Until I went to State, I had no idea that ITB was a "thing".
I don't think our generation (I *think* we are about the same age) knew that term because the Beltline wasn't an actual loop yet. But "North Raleigh" (which started with North Hills & north of there) was derided as badly in the 1970s by "Old Raleigh" folks as much as Cary was in the 2000s.
I only realized late in life that my mother was something of a social climber, which is why we went to an "ITB" church (though that term wasn't used then) with the "Old Raleigh" bluebloods.
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. Growing up in a Southern family in a neighborhood full of IBMers, going to flashy new suburban schools that were about 50-50 NC natives and transplants, I can say that I am "bilingual" in both dialects 
