The debate continues.
, two fugitives were arrested in Berkeley in 1995 when they told police officers they were from Frisco. The officers said they were suspicious since “no one from here ever says that."found that 63.5% of San Franciscans outright reject the use of the word. Last month, a new round of Frisco discourse kicked off after a photo of a “San Fran” Giants jerseys went viral, launching a broader social media debate about other controversial Bay Area terminology.
In his telling, the word was popularized among Black San Franciscans before hip-hop fully bloomed, going back to the Black Panther Party of the 1960s, when Frisco’s rappers and activists, a group more qualified than anyone else to speak about a region’s sense of linguistic versatility and cultural trends, have kept the term alive ever since. For anyone who grew up listening to Bay Area rap — particularly rappers from the SFC, or— Frisco is easily the most identifiable term used to describe San Francisco. It’s a unifying, empowering declaration passed down through each generation of working class San Franciscans, as if to say: we’re still here.
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