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You noticed how I said mainly nuetralized American? And Baltimore and DC haven't been the south since Antebellum, this is getting stupid now
"Since antebellum" meaning the Biafra War? I know you're not talking about the Civil War.
From Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?, Reginald F. Lewis's autobiography:
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The Baltimore of the 1940s and 1950s was a city of gentility, slow living and racial segregation. No one had heard of Martin Luther King... or civil rights... or integration. As in other Southern cities of the time, there were many things black people in Baltimore couldn't do.
At this point, there isn't going to arise a conclusion, because nobody is really making the case for St. Louis. Oh, City-Data...
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Baltimore and DC were definitely Southern at least up to the middle of the 20th century.
The people who still consider them southern are delusional. Like I said, a good chunk of my family is from the real south and would definitely consider both Baltimore and DC part of the northeast
The people who still consider them southern are delusional. Like I said, a good chunk of my family is from the real south and would definitely consider both Baltimore and DC part of the northeast
Yeah well from my experience of many Southerners, many haven't even BEEN to either. They think that DC and Bmore are within 2 hours of New York or Boston.
Yeah well from my experience of many Southerners, many haven't even BEEN to either. They think that DC and Bmore are within 2 hours of New York or Boston.
I'm originally from MD (Baltimore-DC area). I was surprised when I moved to the Midwest how many Midwesterners (Michigan and Illinois) consider the Baltimore-DC area "The South." In fact when the Terps joined the Big Ten a few years ago, many of the radio shows were talking about how college football tradition was changing so much as a "southern" school was joining the Big Ten. In my experience, many Midwesterners use the old Mason-Dixon Line to define what's northern and southern. Many here still consider MD and DC to be southern. I've had a couple of people here in the Midwest who were shocked when I told them how relatively close Baltimore is to Philly.
Interesting points. Could you explain how the culture and accent of Washington is more like Philly's than that of closer city to its south?
The accent of Washington, D.C. is General American. Philly is pretty close to that. Richmond's accent is definitively Southern. There's nothing Southern about a DC accent. I never said you had to agree. You seem more interested in picking a fight though so I'm not going to engage you further.
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The accent of Washington, D.C. is General American. Philly is pretty close to that. Richmond's accent is definitively Southern. There's nothing Southern about a DC accent. I never said you had to agree. You seem more interested in picking a fight though so I'm not going to engage you further.
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