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HelpRe: The Difference Between East Coast and West Coast
in reply to a message by Serafina Starstrider
I don't live in New England or NY, but I do live on the east coast, in southern Delaware. I can tell you that here, Dante is used pretty much exclusively for black males. A girl called Dante is unheard of, and people would definitely assume her parents weren't too bright.
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Same holds true in Michigan. But Dante isn't very popular and never really was by the population in Michigan regardless of race.
This message was edited 5/2/2012, 11:15 AM
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I've only met three Dantes, one white, one black, and one hispanic. I don't think it has a race connotation here. Like I just put it through facebook to see mutual friends and it seems pretty mixed. But like I said, I'm more north.
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Dante is slightly more common where I live for black males than for white males. I don't meet many Dante's. It could be because both of the places I have lived have fairly small black communities. Seattle's African American / black community only makes up 7.9% of the population. Where I live now it is only 1.9% of the population. Or it could be that Dante just isn't very popular where I live. I've only ever met a handful of Dante's before and some of them I met when visiting other places in the US.
The little girl I met named Dante was American Indian. If I remember right she was partially Quileute and from another Washington tribe.
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The little girl I met named Dante was American Indian. If I remember right she was partially Quileute and from another Washington tribe.
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This message was edited 5/2/2012, 5:53 PM
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