[quote=AZcardinal402;33669296]I don't know...from an outsider's perspective they both feel like Diet Southern or Southern-Lite. The reason that NOVA feels like "Diet Southern" as opposed to entirely "un-southern" is that there are schools all over named after confederate generals, highways and street names have confederate generals listed on them, when you encounter a slightly older native Virginian a lot of them have a noticeable drawl, and areas outside of the immediate NOVA counties feel considerably more southern. I had to travel to Culpeper quite a bit for work and a lot of the Culpeper townies sounded like hicks. I also had to spend a week in Winchester which is west of the immediate DC burbs and I encountered a good deal of what I perceive as "southern-ness" there as well.
The Triagle felt exactly the same. A quickly growing, sprawly high-tech area with tons of transplants and a southern culture that exists on the borders of the city. I even recall the native North Carolinians making fun of me because I lived in
Cary which is the "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees."[/quote]
So that's what Cary stands for
LOL
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