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If European immigrants settled in South Louisiana and numerous other places which lacked industrial development during that period, it's quite obvious that the reason they avoided Atlanta had nothing to do with it's lack of industrial development. You'd rather not talk about the past when Atlanta's racially segregated social climate at the present is shaped by the past.
LOL! You should really take this comedy show on the road.
I think all three metros have had such a large influx of non-southerners over the last 30-50 years to the point where the true, Deep South culture, as you would find in Charleston, Savannah, Macon, or Montgomery just doesn't exist in most parts of Metro Atlanta, Metro Charlotte, or the Triangle.
I think all three metros have had such a large influx of non-southerners over the last 30-50 years to the point where the true, Deep South culture, as you would find in Charleston, Savannah, Macon, or Montgomery just doesn't exist in most parts of Metro Atlanta, Metro Charlotte, or the Triangle.
Even Charleston's Deep South culture is being diluted with the constant influx of non-Southern transplants and thus it's a bit different than Macon and Montgomery which are pretty stagnant in terms of population growth.
I think all three metros have had such a large influx of non-southerners over the last 30-50 years to the point where the true, Deep South culture, as you would find in Charleston, Savannah, Macon, or Montgomery just doesn't exist in most parts of Metro Atlanta, Metro Charlotte, or the Triangle.
I agree with this statement. That true deep south culture is almost non-existant in these new south metros. You would have to go to Mississippi, and the coastal plain regions of these states if you want to find that true sterotypical southern character.
The rural Piedmont and Western NC regions are pretty darn southern (or "country") but nothing too Deep South. You'd have to go east of Raleigh for that, although I wouldn't call Northeast NC (Elizabeth City) and the Outer Banks areas "Deep South" since those areas are more similar to Virginia and Maryland. However, the bulk of Eastern NC was all plantation lands later used for tobacco. Even the areas north of the Research Triangle and Triad along the Virginia border are pretty darn southern, the "tobacco belt."
You can't get more Deep South than Mississippi, even the Memphis suburbs are probably Deep South-ish. Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia easily come in behind IMO.
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If European immigrants settled in South Louisiana and numerous other places which lacked industrial development during that period, it's quite obvious that the reason they avoided Atlanta had nothing to do with it's lack of industrial development. You'd rather not talk about the past when Atlanta's racially segregated social climate at the present is shaped by the past.
So all the Irish folks that immigrated here back then (there were also a lot of Germans too) weren't from Europe? Nice to know.
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South Louisiana--primarily New Orleans--was pretty industrialized during the wave of European immigration in the late 19th/early 20th century when it was the largest city in the South and on par with some industrialized Northern metros at that time. Also, it was already a melting pot of various cultures due its location and status as a major port city. Very bad example.
Neither, big cities in the south tend to be less southern. However, I think that the suburbs of Atlanta are more southern than those in NC.
Maybe some of the outer suburbs in the metro, but I doubt counties like Cobb, Gwinnett, and DeKalb are too different. Only my opinion, though.
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