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Pardon my ignorance on DC matters, but what was the city like before the federal government moved in to town? Was there a city before it became the capitol? Was it just Georgetown before ?
DC's culture is much more southern than Northeastern. The Philly area is the end of the northeast in terms of culture. You get south of Newark, DE and the visual changes begin and transition to the Chesapeake area.
Pardon my ignorance on DC matters, but what was the city like before the federal government moved in to town? Was there a city before it became the capitol? Was it just Georgetown before ?
There was no DC before the federal government moved into town; it was explicitly created for the purpose of being the seat of government of the United States. Now the neighborhood of Georgetown used to be its own municipality before being merged with Washington by Congress to create a consolidated city in the federal district, but it wasn't very big.
Pardon my ignorance on DC matters, but what was the city like before the federal government moved in to town? Was there a city before it became the capitol? Was it just Georgetown before ?
Georgetown was founded in 1751 and located in Montgomery County, Maryland. Washington DC was founded 40 years later by an Act of Congress.
DC's culture is much more southern than Northeastern. The Philly area is the end of the northeast in terms of culture. You get south of Newark, DE and the visual changes begin and transition to the Chesapeake area.
Good answer. I think this post sums it up best. Culturally DC/Baltimore not so much(though they are influenced by the cities to the north), geographically I guess an argument could be made, but meh.
Georgetown was founded in 1751 and located in Montgomery County, Maryland. Washington DC was founded 40 years later by an Act of Congress.
MoCo used to be part of PG County actually. Alexandria, VA was also another major independent port town on the Potomac prior to being absolved into DC (only to later secede since the Virginians wanted to hold on to the slave trade).
If DC had never existed, Eye wonder if G-Town and Alex were to have gotten bigger to at least a similar size like Annapolis. They probably wouldn't have gotten too big since Baltimore's influence and growth without the existence of DC would most likely have made it an even larger city than it is now.
DC's culture is much more southern than Northeastern. The Philly area is the end of the northeast in terms of culture. You get south of Newark, DE and the visual changes begin and transition to the Chesapeake area.
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Good answer. I think this post sums it up best. Culturally DC/Baltimore not so much(though they are influenced by the cities to the north), geographically I guess an argument could be made, but meh.
MoCo used to be part of PG County actually. Alexandria, VA was also another major independent port town on the Potomac prior to being absolved into DC (only to later secede since the Virginians wanted to hold on to the slave trade).
Hmm... I thought DC was created from Prince George's and Montgomery counties on the Maryland side. I didn't know Montgomery was part of Prince George's at one point. I guess my knowledge of that period of our history is pretty limited.
DC's culture is much more southern than Northeastern. The Philly area is the end of the northeast in terms of culture. You get south of Newark, DE and the visual changes begin and transition to the Chesapeake area.
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Originally Posted by SirGreenDown
Good answer. I think this post sums it up best. Culturally DC/Baltimore not so much(though they are influenced by the cities to the north), geographically I guess an argument could be made, but meh.
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Originally Posted by personone
This.
Gotta love the when the minority posts something just to make themselves feel better, without even offering an actual reason to say why.
First and foremost, what does culture even have to do it visual appearance? And if we are going down that road, the south is very visually different from the DC-Baltimore area. So how exactly do they have a "southern culture" then?
Also quite curious about what's to "guess" about DC/Baltimore being geographically northeastern?
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