More Southern influence: Baltimore or Chicago? (state, America, people, cons)
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Baltimore on a historic level, the southern influence in Chicago was almost entirely brought up from the African American population from the great migration (for example, why Chicago to this day is so well known for Jazz and blues music). Otherwise, it's historically not a southern city, pretty much in any sense. If anything it is historically more a "western" or "northwestern" city. But in 2020, it's safe to say neither of these cities resemble the south much. But at one point, MD was considered a southern state, so there you go.
Some people on this site really want to make arguments all day, but for the past at least 100 years and counting, it's safe to say every city north/northeast of D.C. (and including D.C.) is a Northeastern city, and Chicago is well, squarely Midwestern. Any other regional classifications of these cities, are purely historical, and aren't relevant today.
Last edited by CCrest182; 06-18-2020 at 01:02 AM..
What to you does a stereotypical Southern city feel like exactly?
I grew up in and around Baltimore and has a short military tour Mississippi a few years back.
Southern cities by and large tend to have very low structural density & walkability outside of their immediate downtowns, are heavily forested with extremely sprawling suburbs with the obvious southern culture, nuances & mannerisms. In my experience people in the Southern cities (not their suburbs) tend to be friendlier on average the in any big cites outside the big Midwestern ones (and this is coming from a mixed man)
Baltimore is in th actual south, so it has to be Baltimore. The only thing about Chicago that is stereotypically more southern than Baltimore is the accents of the black people in Chicago.
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