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Now I love, love, love WNC, but on the map in my mind the region beyond the mountains has a note: "there be dragons here". Well not really but it just doesn't register. I know there are interesting cities but none as interesting as Charleston SC.. Yes I intend to make another visit someday but it never becomes a priority. I know the outer banks are beautiful but not twice as beautiful as the Charleston area beaches. I know Charlotte is bustling but it's not nearly as convenient as bustling Atlanta.
I hate to say this but it seems that people are more uppity in NC and look down on the rest of us in the south. Then their own legislature passes a conservative law and they are shocked, shocked I tell you.
No, I have lived in NC. I have been all over the state. I don't consider the state Southern. At one time, yes. Currently, no. NC is the same as Virginia. More Mid-Atlantic than Southern.
You have to be kidding. Yes, North Carolina is pretty similar to Virginia, but it's still more southern IMO. Most of the remote areas outside the Triangle and Charlotte aren't dissimilar from the remote areas of Georgia, South Carolina, and even Alabama! This is still a southern state. Mid-Atlantic? I'm beginning to HATE that term. This is North Carolina, NOT Maryland. We're NOT the lower northeast. If we're more Mid-Atlantic than southern, might as well add South Carolina to the list, also. Doesn't make sense? Well, just like calling NC more Mid-Atlantic than southern!
No, I have lived in NC. I have been all over the state. I don't consider the state Southern. At one time, yes. Currently, no. NC is the same as Virginia. More Mid-Atlantic than Southern.
Sorry! North Carolina and Virginia is as southern as they come. To say otherwise is ignorance. I have a mountain home in North Carolina, and my family is from Virginia. Don't tell me they are not Southern. Also I have a home in South Carolina. I know the south.
Last edited by Scotty011; 12-26-2014 at 05:05 PM..
What is it with these people that want to make southern states not southern? It makes absolutely no sense to me. This is the only place that I find that people either do not know what regions that states are in and seem totally ignorant of geography and history. People moving into a state does not change that state from being southern. Get an education people. If everyone from Alabama and Mississippi moved to New York State, would that make it a Southern state??? Hell no it would not.
NC is no longer the South, and of course the same for Florida. Tennessee is too close to the Mississippi (as are Mississippi and Louisiana) and frankly, Nashville is full of liberal faux country singers. Of course Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are Yankee states, and Georgia is really just completely ruined by Atlanta. South Carolina is just South Carolina, really a thing of its own, and Alabama renamed their football team.
So I guess we have to come to grips with the fact that the South no longer exists. Some might even suggest it never did. Everyone, please remove your hats and observe a moment of silence for the country's most ephemeral/non-existant region.
In other news, waviking is not a viking.
Last edited by ABQConvict; 12-26-2014 at 06:24 PM..
A lot of people feel the same way about Florida, just because a lot of people from the north lives there, its not southern anymore.
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