Strongest Italian presence: Baltimore, New Orleans or San Francisco? (states, living, state)

[KodeBlue]

Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly

People also vote by what they actually see and personally experienced, not just going by stat sheets.

Exactly.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

Nathaniel Branson disagrees.



Nathaniel Branson - Social Work - UMBC

So does Diane Cole of the New York Times.



But hey, these guys hide behind a cloak of anonymity unlike the posters on C-D. Can't be trusted.

WEEKEND EXCURSION - How Dowdy Old Baltimore Turned Fashionable - NYTimes.com

So two people saying the sky is green means the sky is green?

[KodeBlue]

Do a Baltimore area vs NYC area Irish or Polish presence poll and see who'd win.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by King of Kensington

I'm talking about things like the "yat" accent in New Orleans. From the foreword to A Confederacy of Dunces:

"There is a New Orleans city accent . . . associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans"

Yat dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

New Orleans was referred to as "That Hoboken On The Gulf".

[KodeBlue]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

So two people saying the sky is green means the sky is green?

NYC city a sleepy little village along the Hudson River; even more so than my community of Reisterstown, MD. See, anyone can do it.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by KodeBlue

NYC city a sleepy little village along the Hudson River. See, anyone can do it.

No, it's on the LA River.

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

So two people saying the sky is green means the sky is green?

Two Baltimore natives who've provided their full names means a lot more than an anonymous internet poster allegedly from Louisiana.

And it's not like Baltimore City's website refers to the city as a southern city or anything....

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by KodeBlue

NYC city a sleepy little village along the Hudson River; even more so than my community of Reisterstown, MD. See, anyone can do it.

I don't see the New York Times doing that though. But find me a quote by a native New Yorker referring to NYC as the "sleepy southern town of my birth" and I'll give it to you.

[KodeBlue]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

I don't see the New York Times doing that though. But find me a quote by a native New Yorker referring to NYC as the "sleepy southern town of my birth" and I'll give it to you.

I'll give you quote from someone born & raised in the city of Baltimore that says something completely different than those same two articles that you keep reposting and it would be just as official.

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by KodeBlue

I'll give you quote from someone born & raised in the city of Baltimore that says something completely different than those same two articles that you keep reposting and it would be just as official.

Then be about it. I'm just sayin'...that's a whole lot of people from Baltimore saying Baltimore is in the South. Even John Waters, perhaps the most famous man from Baltimore ever, calls it a southern city. That would be like Chris Matthews referring to Philadelphia as "the sleepy Southern city of my birth." For some reason, we don't see people referring to Philadelphia as a southern city. And the city's website doesn't refer to it as a southern city.

Wonder why that is...