re: Grown people in New Orleans obsessed over where they went to HS. What is this?

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how?

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Here it’s easy. Obviously one cannot generalize too much and say, for example, that everyone who went to Jesuit is a closeted homosexual. However, Jesuit has been known to produce more figs than most other private schools in the area.

Similar stereotypes prove to be overwhelmingly true. Newman has the most jews and inbred old money types who are the IV and V of their family. Sacred heart produces stuck up daddy’s girls with cocaine habits. Etc. etc.

NOLA Peaked at high-school, the Adults moved on and live in Texas.

Born and raised in NOLA and I cringe at it. I think at this point its part of a weird caricature... ITS SO NAWLINS TO ASK WHERE YA WENT TO SCHOOL...BUT HIGH SCHOOL!!

Most people I from there dont actually care cause they didnt academically or socially peak in HS... there is the stray Jesuit grad who makes it their identity though

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Sam Barthe

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Now you're talking!

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Or maybe (most likely) your grandfather was a turd like you.

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He might have been. He was also a tough son of a bitch so it makes sense.

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it’s not weird in Baton Rouge

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This is true. One year I covered the Big XII media days when they had it in Dallas. It was when Major Applewhite was the starting QB for Texas. He was in one of the interview rooms, off of the main room with the stage with a podium. He was just sitting in there at a table. I waited for some other guy to finish an interview, introduced myself, told him who I was writing for and started asking him about his team.

When he was telling me about the RB's on the team, he told me one guy reminded him of Travis Minor who played with him at Catholic High. When I told him I knew they played together and told him I lived in Baton Rouge for a couple of years, he asked me where I went to school. When I said 'LSU', he said 'Oh, and looked at me like I was a bug.

When this happened, I didn't know his parents were Alabama fans that named him after Major Ogilvie. The way he looked at me when I told him I went to LSU made me think he really hated LSU, or LSU fans. I've told this story before and ended it with, "I guess he just hates LSU."

Maybe it was because he could tell I didn't go to Catholic School.

I’ve come to dread this question. Was asked recently by someone in a casual convo, and their demeanor changed when I answered. (My school was public, but extremely hard to get into, and perhaps harder to stay enrolled in.) That said, most of my friends in town were met during those formative years. As others have said, it helps to establish so many things about the person in question, including level of intelligence.