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Native Mississippian. The South, to me, is Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South and North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky, the Florida panhandle and east Texas. I lived in Maryland for a while and had people earnestly tell me, "Oh, it's so Southern here, like Gone with the Wind." Ah, no. I don't feel like I'm in the South until I hit the NC stateline. A lot of stuff goes into a it, the South shares a certain culture, accents, food, music, climate, and atmosphere.
Native Mississippian. The South, to me, is Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South and North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky, the Florida panhandle and east Texas. I lived in Maryland for a while and had people earnestly tell me, "Oh, it's so Southern here, like Gone with the Wind." Ah, no. I don't feel like I'm in the South until I hit the NC stateline. A lot of stuff goes into a it, the South shares a certain culture, accents, food, music, climate, and atmosphere.
Why do you consider Kentucky Southern, but not Virginia? Virginia is just as southern as Kentucky, if not more.
I disagree. Washington DC has turned a large portion of Virginia into "the north". Anywhere north of Richmond, they don't have a conservative southern voting record, and they definitely don't talk like southerners. I went to school with some northern VA people, and they talk like they are from New Jersey.
You can make a case that Virginia is a "southern state", mainly b/c of it's history. But the demographics of it today are different than they were 250 years ago when it was undisputedly southern. I don't consider it southern, but I can see where someone would.
Are you kidding?
I grew up in Northern Virginia and I sure dont talk like someone from New Jersey.
Of course, i was a rarity in Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia has people from all over.
I dont consider Washington a northern city, either.
Northern Virginia is a melting pot now
But Richmond, Charlottesville, and The Shenandoah Valley are distinctly Southern.
And Northern Virgnia was very Southern just about 40 years ago. Not 250 years ago.
The South to me is Virginia on south. Ive been to up state Virginia and there are alot of transplants there but the state outside this confined area tends to be Southern.
There are good but sad examples of places all over the South that have disrupted the area culturally such as DC, Atlanta, good amounts of Florida, and in NC the Raleigh and Charlotte areas. Areas overrun with transplants and shopping centers, but when you venture outside these areas it is predominantly Southern.
I grew up in Northern Virginia and I sure dont talk like someone from New Jersey.
Of course, i was a rarity in Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia has people from all over.
I dont consider Washington a northern city, either.
Northern Virginia is a melting pot now
But Richmond, Charlottesville, and The Shenandoah Valley are distinctly Southern.
And Northern Virgnia was very Southern just about 40 years ago. Not 250 years ago.
Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. But I've spent a fair amount of time in NOVA, and by my standards, it's not southern. I remember going out with a friend, socially, and meeting all of her friends. They all mocked the way that I talked (in a sort-of friendly way). They seemed really amused that I drove a pickup truck, like that was something unusual. One person got upset when I told them I liked to bird hunt. People on the roads drove like northerners, people in the stores talked like northerners, and people had only vaguely heard of grits.
I don't know how you define 'southern', but they definitely flunked my test.
I always thought the regions of the U.S. were grouped by location, not by how alike and how different they are??? If a state is in the Northeast then it's in the Northeast, no matter how much it might seem a little midwestern. I mean, Florida is about as south as there is, so it seems strange not to include because of it's retiree popluation. Am I off base or is this regional question already decided by where the states are positioned?
A Talahassee native once told me that (present day) Florida is the only state in the Union from which you have to travel north to really be in the South!
Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. But I've spent a fair amount of time in NOVA, and by my standards, it's not southern. I remember going out with a friend, socially, and meeting all of her friends. They all mocked the way that I talked (in a sort-of friendly way). They seemed really amused that I drove a pickup truck, like that was something unusual. One person got upset when I told them I liked to bird hunt. People on the roads drove like northerners, people in the stores talked like northerners, and people had only vaguely heard of grits.
I don't know how you define 'southern', but they definitely flunked my test.
Thats because they're not native Virginians. Or their parents were from some place else.
You obviously know little about Virginia. I have lived here my whole life. I am Southern and my whole family has been here for 12 generations.
Right, because we both happen to share an opinion that you disagree with....
We don't sound alike. Anonymous is nicer and more articulate than I am.
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