Does D.C. have more in common with NYC or Atlanta? (populations, people)
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Demographically, Atlanta. Built environment, none of them. Culture, none of them except maybe the Black culture which is similar to Atlanta.
That's why I said Atlanta. It's nothing like NYC, but it shares a couple of traits with Atlanta. Still, it's a bizarre comparison.
The dominant culture of Washington DC is "northern" now in almost every traditional sense. So I would put it closer to NYC in that sense, despite hardly being anything alike.
Demographically, Atlanta. Built environment, none of them. Culture, none of them except maybe the Black culture which is similar to Atlanta.
That's why I said Atlanta. It's nothing like NYC, but it shares a couple of traits with Atlanta. Still, it's a bizarre comparison.
There are some parallels that can be drawn between DC and Brownstone Brooklyn as far as the built environment is concerned. There is also some similarity in their relative degrees of SWPLness; gentrified Atlanta is not far off in that regard these days either.
In a broad and general sense, they are strikingly similar in that they are the Meccas of Black aristocracy and higher education in the U.S. It's been a while since I've glanced at Our Kind of People but I'm sure DC and ATL fill up more pages in that book than any other cities.
So built environment/"lifestyle" wise, I'd say NYC. Culturally and demographically, I'd say Atlanta. Putting all the issues about Atlanta's Southerness aside, those two metros are more similar to each other than they are to the NYC metro where the vast majority of White people are Jewish, Italian or Irish. They are basically the "old guard" here whereas it's African Americans in ATL and DC.
There are some parallels that can be drawn between DC and Brownstone Brooklyn as far as the built environment is concerned. There is also some similarity in their relative degrees of SWPLness; gentrified Atlanta is not far off in that regard these days either.
In a broad and general sense, they are strikingly similar in that they are the Meccas of Black aristocracy and higher education in the U.S. It's been a while since I've glanced at Our Kind of People but I'm sure DC and ATL fill up more pages in that book than any other cities.
So built environment/"lifestyle" wise, I'd say NYC. Culturally and demographically, I'd say Atlanta. Putting all the issues about Atlanta's Southerness aside, those two metros are more similar to each other than they are to the NYC metro where the vast majority of White people are Jewish, Italian or Irish. They are basically the "old guard" here whereas it's African Americans in ATL and DC.
The majority of the population of Atlanta is still white...Atlanta is 32% black, on a similar scale to D.C.
I would think that Atlanta and D.C. have more in common simply due to their similar size and a couple of other similarities, but D.C. is a very unique American city and not really like any other.
The majority of the population of Atlanta is still white...Atlanta is 32% black, on a similar scale to D.C.
I would think that Atlanta and D.C. have more in common simply due to their similar size and a couple of other similarities, but D.C. is a very unique American city and not really like any other.
There's really nothing like NYC. And there's nowhere like DC in the USA either. One city is the iconic USA city known around the world by culturalists, historians, etc etc, DC is the nations capital, Atlanta is a pretty stereotypical USA city (especially for the south). How do you begin to compare any of these?
If Atlanta isn't a stereotypical southern city, what is?
More like Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, Montgomery.
IMHO, the District itself is more overall similar to NY than it is to Atlanta, even though both the central cores of DC and Atlanta do have neighborhoods that are similar to each other.
As far as the suburbs are concerned, Metro DC and Atlanta are for the most part, mirror images of each other, and are more similar to each other than Suburban DC is to NY!!
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