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The whole? I don't think many people would agree that El Paso and Laredo are Southern.
That's why I said "as a whole". Texas has lots of outer influences (as shown by El paso and Laredo), but the southern influence dominates, thats why i say texas as a whole is southern. The area where most of the population in texas live (the triangle) is southern.
That's why I said "as a whole". Texas has lots of outer influences (as shown by El paso and Laredo), but the southern influence dominates, thats why i say texas as a whole is southern. The area where most of the population in texas live (the triangle) is southern.
I find Austin to be a little more "Southern" than NOVA. NOVA compares somewhat favorably to DFW -- uptight, fast paced, career-oriented, keeping up with the Jones's, ethnically diverse, etc. Austin feels like the "Big Easy" in comparison to NOVA. More laid back and more appreciative of the simpler things in life. NOVA is great for the type A corporate robot.
NoVA is pretty much like the rest of the North or Mid-Atlantic. A northerner will feel far less culture shock there than someone from the rural south. Like rest of DC area, its full of transplants, many of whom come from NY or Boston. There are little traces of the south, though. The roads named after confederate generals, a small number of 50+ year old natives with southern accents, the pro-business, right to own a gun, right-to-work state policies.
But with the large Latino population, you now feel the Central American influences there a lot more than you do old Southern ones.
Both are southern...I know some people don't want to believe that, but having traits of other regions doesn't disqualify an area from it's current boundaries. Many places have characteristic of neighboring regions but they are still a part of their region. It's funny how people like to distance themselves from the South by trying to make their area sound less southern - as if the South is a bad place. It's the fastest growing and largest region in the US, so many millions of people seem to be flocking to this region, but their presence will not make it less southern.
Both are southern...I know some people don't want to believe that, but having traits of other regions doesn't disqualify an area from it's current boundaries. Many places have characteristic of neighboring regions but they are still a part of their region. It's funny how people like to distance themselves from the South by trying to make their area sound less southern - as if the South is a bad place. It's the fastest growing and largest region in the US, so many millions of people seem to be flocking to this region, but their presence will not make it less southern.
Places can and do loose their southern confederate culture. Having boundaries in the south doesn't default a place to having southern confederate culture. Transplants and surrounding influences change regional cultures all the time.
That said a lot of people I have met from Austin I would put in the Southern culture box. I've never met anyone from northern Virginia that I considered Southern cultured.
Places can and do loose their southern confederate culture. Having boundaries in the south doesn't default a place to having southern confederate culture. Transplants and surrounding influences change regional cultures all the time.
That said a lot of people I have met from Austin I would put in the Southern culture box. I've never met anyone from northern Virginia that I considered Southern cultured.
What is it with you and this "Confederate culture" ish? What the hell does that even mean???
What is it with you and this "Confederate culture" ish? What the hell does that even mean???
It means pertaining to a culture and people that can be traced back to the confederate states of America. Southerners like to use the term "southern" in a snarky way, where they like to say it is both a cultural and regional definition. With their crude terminology they like to say areas of the country that aren't Southern culturally, because they are located in the southern latitude portions of the US, are by default Southern culture.
Therefore I have given the new name to Southern culture, calling it confederate culture. As it rightly defines the aspects of the culture in the American south that I find distasteful. Baptist and Pentecostal churches, ugly accents, social backwardsness, less diverse ancestries, etc.
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