"to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)

[Bill Palmer]

I taught for a number of years @ a historically black university in NC.
100% of my students used phrases like "where do you *stay*", or "I don't
*stay* with my parents"...situations where the average white person would
use *live*

How might this have originated?

Bill Palmer

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