A childhood belief about virginity

When I first heard the word virgin, when I was around 11 I was around a lot of people who were older and that liked to talk dirty all the time, and someone asked "Are you a virgin?", in a serious way and I thought he was asking are you from Virginia, and I was born in New York and moved to New Jersey when I was little, so I had no idea why they would think that, so I responded "Um... No... why would you even think that?", acting like I was all smart and they were dumb. Image an 11 year old saying that. How embarassing. That was so long ago... but I still can remember it, it's one of those memories that you can always think about and laugh.