The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108983   Message #2346912
Posted By: Jim Lad
22-May-08 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Voting for Hillary?
Subject: RE: BS: Voting for Hillary?
Nope!
But I was half serious about that.
Middle names for boys were regarded as pretentious in the poor district where I was raised.
Calling myself "Working Class" was a bit of a step up for me and I felt a little twinge of guilt using that term.
We were always poor & occasionally hungry.
Folks in those settings often resent efforts by others to rise above it.
Those with more ambition did their best to give their children the best start that they possibly could and a token like a middle name cost nothing but would always be there.
The Irish did and still do give their children English names but call them by their Irish equivalents as a way to hide their status later in life.