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Hey Bajan, your sarcastic reverse psychology like posts are pretty funny. It could be considered trolling but I know your not serious. You are trying to get people to understand on their own the difference between quintessential, true northeastern cities of NYC, Philly and Boston vs the grey area southern/northern hybrid lower "mid atlantic" cities of Baltimore, DC and Richmond.
Hey Bajan, your sarcastic reverse psychology like posts are pretty funny. It could be considered trolling but I know your not serious. You are trying to get people to understand on their own the difference between quintessential, true northeastern cities of NYC, Philly and Boston vs the grey area southern/northern hybrid lower "mid atlantic" cities of Baltimore, DC and Richmond.
How bout we just "simplify" this to say Portland, ME is the Deep North, Boston the North, NYC and Philly the Mid-Atlantic North, Bmore, DC and Richmond the Mid-Atlantic South, Atlanta the South and Birmingham the Deep South haha.
Hey Bajan, your sarcastic reverse psychology like posts are pretty funny. It could be considered trolling but I know your not serious. You are trying to get people to understand on their own the difference between quintessential, true northeastern cities of NYC, Philly and Boston vs the grey area southern/northern hybrid lower "mid atlantic" cities of Baltimore, DC and Richmond.
I knew he was using reverse psychology all along. When it comes to the truth, he doesn't hold much merit to the term "Mid-Atlantic". Also if I had to guess, he probably despises that term.
How bout we just "simplify" this to say Portland, ME is the Deep North, Boston the North, NYC and Philly the Mid-Atlantic North, Bmore, DC and Richmond the Mid-Atlantic South, Atlanta the South and Birmingham the Deep South haha.
Why can't Philly be Mid-Atlantic South though? Why do DC and Baltimore get to be but Philly gets locked out?
Wilson Goode was the mayor of Philly and he was from North Carolina. Does that not count for anything?
She could be representative of the average Philadelphian. Center City makes up about 60% of the city's 1.6 million residents after all.
BajanYankee, you know her accent isn't the norm for that area. While she doesn't have a typical Southern accent, I wouldn't say that she represents the average Philadelphian. That accent is probably more similar to Chicagoland than it is to the Philly area.
BajanYankee, you know her accent isn't the norm for that area. While she doesn't have a typical Southern accent, I wouldn't say that she represents the average Philadelphian. That accent is probably more similar to Chicagoland than it is to the Philly area.
It's well-known that the Philadelphia accent had southern vowel sounds. You've even said so yourself. So this is a similarity between Philly and Raleigh. That's what I mean by Philly being tied into the South. There are also a lot of Philadelphians who have moved South, which strengthens the connections between Philly and Raleigh. They are both solidly Mid-Atlantic.
The girl in the video has a strong Mid-Atlantic/Southern dialect similar to what you would hear in Cape May, New Jersey.
Wilson Goode was the mayor of Philly and he was from North Carolina. Does that not count for anything?
Joe Arpaio is the sheriff of the Phoenix metro area and he's from Springfield, MA (Western Massachusetts' biggest city). Does that not count for anything? [Both of his parents were born Italy, as you might guess from his last name and age]
Joe Arpaio is the sheriff of the Phoenix metro area and he's from Springfield, MA (Western Massachusetts' biggest city). Does that not count for anything? [Both of his parents were born Italy, as you might guess from his last name and age]
It does. Arizona has been "northernized" to a degree. Similarly, Philadelphia has been "southernized" by domestic migrants.
Philadelphia is just not Deep North. Plain and simple. If anything, it looks South towards Richmond.
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