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Old 04-15-2014, 11:38 PM
 
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Dude, North Carolina is nowhere close to being as southern as Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, etc and you know that. Not even the rural parts. North Carolina is NOT similar to Georgia in the slighest. The two are like night and day. Georgia has only one metro Atlanta and North Carolina has multiple. There are no SEC schools in North Carolina nor is College Football huge at all as it is in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, etc. North Carolina has much better race relations and is much more progressive overall than Georgia. Most of North Carolina colleges are in the ACC and rivals are Virginia and Maryland, not Georgia. Black North Carolinians have ties to DC and Maryland, not Georgia. Georgia has much more in common with North Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, etc than North Carolina. Even South Carolina feels vastly different than North Carolina. Geographically and culturally, Georgia is southern to the bone while North Carolina is not. Geographically and culturally, North Carolina is Mid-Atlantic along with Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia(maybe), and Delaware.
I agree that NC is characteristically more like VA, but that doesn't make NC mid-Atlantic culturally. Not even all of VA is culturally mid-Atlantic.

And yes, the rural parts of NC can feel every bit as Southern as the rural parts of SC, GA, AL, etc.

Have you ever lived in NC?
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Old 04-15-2014, 11:39 PM
 
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The Triangle and NOVA are not as similar as far as the feel of the two like Alexandria what in the Triangle feels like that, but on paper these two areas share alot together.
Just like Annapolis, Charleston, and Savannah share alot together....
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Old 04-15-2014, 11:41 PM
 
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The Triangle and NOVA are not as similar as far as the feel of the two like Alexandria what in the Triangle feels like that, but on paper these two areas share alot together.
Yeah they both have high-tech economies, a highly-educated population, and a lot of Northern transplants. But there's still a stronger Southern undertone in the Triangle than in NOVA and there's a big difference in the built environment as well.
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Old 04-15-2014, 11:42 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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The Triangle and NOVA are not as similar as far as the feel of the two like Alexandria what in the Triangle feels like that, but on paper these two areas share alot together.
Durham.
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Old 04-15-2014, 11:45 PM
 
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Durham.
What about it?
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Old 04-16-2014, 12:09 AM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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I agree that NC is characteristically more like VA, but that doesn't make NC mid-Atlantic culturally. Not even all of VA is culturally mid-Atlantic.

And yes, the rural parts of NC can feel every bit as Southern as the rural parts of SC, GA, AL, etc.

Have you ever lived in NC?
No they're not. The rural areas are NOT as southern as parts of SC, GA, AL, etc based on experience alone. Just the rural areas alone of South Carolina feel vastly different; terrible roads, bad infrastructure, much more country, much more southern feeling, non progressive, more backwards, more segregated, etc. Just coming from Pageland, South Carolina to Greenville, North Carolina makes that place look like a major metropolitan area. North Carolina and Virginia are in the middle.
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Old 04-16-2014, 01:05 AM
 
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No they're not. The rural areas are NOT as southern as parts of SC, GA, AL, etc based on experience alone. Just the rural areas alone of South Carolina feel vastly different; terrible roads, bad infrastructure, much more country, much more southern feeling, non progressive, more backwards, more segregated, etc. Just coming from Pageland, South Carolina to Greenville, North Carolina makes that place look like a major metropolitan area. North Carolina and Virginia are in the middle.
Dude, how are you going to compare Pageland to Greenville? That's dumb; you can say the same thing comparing Kinston to Columbia.

The infrastructure might be a little better in eastern NC, but that's about the only difference between that region and the rural coastal plain of SC and southern GA. There's nothing progressive, forward-thinking, less "Southern-feeling," etc. about eastern NC compared with those other regions.
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Old 04-16-2014, 01:42 AM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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Dude, how are you going to compare Pageland to Greenville? That's dumb; you can say the same thing comparing Kinston to Columbia.

The infrastructure might be a little better in eastern NC, but that's about the only difference between that region and the rural coastal plain of SC and southern GA. There's nothing progressive, forward-thinking, less "Southern-feeling," etc. about eastern NC compared with those other regions.
The rurals areas of North Carolina are not, I repeat are not as southern as those areas. North Carolina rural areas compare more to Virginia, Maryland, and Southern Delaware than those. Eastern NC has more in common with tidewater Virginia than rural area of South Carolina or Georgia. A rural town/area such as Rocky Mount is similar to Suffolk. You can drive from Central Virginia to North Carolina and the majority of the rural areas feel and look the same. Even Southern Maryland and some of the Eastern shore. The moment you step foot into South Carolina you feel a vast different. South Carolina is a dump and it shows right away.
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Old 04-16-2014, 02:03 AM
 
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The rurals areas of North Carolina are not, I repeat are not as southern as those areas. North Carolina rural areas compare more to Virginia, Maryland, and Southern Delaware than those. Eastern NC has more in common with tidewater Virginia than rural area of South Carolina or Georgia. A rural town/area such as Rocky Mount is similar to Suffolk. You can drive from Central Virginia to North Carolina and the majority of the rural areas feel and look the same. Even Southern Maryland and some of the Eastern shore. The moment you step foot into South Carolina you feel a vast different. South Carolina is a dump and it shows right away.
You've proven nothing. Voting patterns are the same, speech patterns are generally the same, the regions are economically depressed, there is reliance on tobacco in parts of eastern NC and the Pee Dee of SC, etc. The areas near the VA border would be a little more similar to NC but even then it's not drastic. All of eastern NC isn't like Tidewater VA; that's only the areas near there like Elizabeth City and the Outer Banks. Towns like Laurinburg and Lumberton are very similar to areas just across the border in SC; all of that is considered the Carolina Sandhills region and are tied culturally. The fact of the matter is that there's nothing progressive, forward-thinking, etc. about eastern NC in general and you've not demonstrated anything remotely mid-Atlantic about it.

For SC to be such a dump, it sure is filled with tons of NC license plates in the spring and summer headed to Myrtle Beach with a lot of those folks being from eastern NC. Heck, Myrtle Beach and Wilmington are on the verge of having their metro areas connected.
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Old 04-16-2014, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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I agree that NC is characteristically more like VA, but that doesn't make NC mid-Atlantic culturally. Not even all of VA is culturally mid-Atlantic.
What is "Mid Atlantic culture?"
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