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Not sure why you expect human nature to magically change by dint of geographic location, but sounds like you got sold a bill of goods with this whole "southern charm" stuff. And we dixie yokels are supposed to be the naïve ones...
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Not sure why you expect human nature to magically change by dint of geographic location, but sounds like you got sold a bill of goods with this whole "southern charm" stuff. And we dixie yokels are supposed to be the naïve ones...
Well, the people on these pages keep bragging about their wonderful southern charm. What am I supposed to expect? All I really expected is for people to at least be as friendly and courteous as the place I came from. It's not the case.
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C'mon just because you say something doesn't make it true. The Earth is flat! Why because I said so. You can say it all you want. I use to think you were arguing out of ignorance but now its clear you argue out stupidity. Don't be stubborn southbound. I don't figure you to be a stupid person but you're trying to make something fit that doesn't. NC is the south only and it's not because I said so it's because I have rock solid evidence.
I'll tell you what, call me stupid or ignorant again & I'll report the post. You are allowed your view & I'm allowed mine. I posted a link to a Charlotte thread that has a NC native saying it. She & I were taught the same thing, that it is both. Have you gotten off your butt & gone to a single place that is given, by various people, in this thread as an example? Oh, yeah, you have to go in with an open mind & you don't have an open mind.
Years ago I had a friend from Georgia who moved back. with her kids. Her older son went with the school band to Charlotte one year & Philadelphia the next year for the Thanksgiving parades. He went home & told his mother that he thought that Philadelphia was a lot like Charlotte because of the people. No one told him anything ahead of time. He made his own observation.
I've met a lot of people in the 3+ years that I have lived here who knew the Philadelphia mill workers who followed the mill jobs to Gaston & Cleveland Counties in the 60s & 70s. They've all commented on how the Philadelphians fit in. That fits with the North Carolinians & Virginians who I worked with in Philadelphia & South Jersey who always said that they didn't see a big difference.
Think whatever you want, but do not insult me for having a different point of view.
Natives will say it is definitely southern; emigres will say it's not.
This sums up MD, VA, and NC. When I head to Henrico I feel more at home then I do in the town I live in.
Looks like yall have the same issue us in Maryland and Virginia have had for a little while now. For us its the info tech/Government (MD and VA) thats killing our southern culture and for yall its the research triangle and banking. Funny thing is 50, 40, 30 or heck even 20 years ago these discussions of southern states being southern wouldnt exist.
I'll tell you what, call me stupid or ignorant again & I'll report the post. You are allowed your view & I'm allowed mine. I posted a link to a Charlotte thread that has a NC native saying it. She & I were taught the same thing, that it is both. Have you gotten off your butt & gone to a single place that is given, by various people, in this thread as an example? Oh, yeah, you have to go in with an open mind & you don't have an open mind.
Years ago I had a friend from Georgia who moved back. with her kids. Her older son went with the school band to Charlotte one year & Philadelphia the next year for the Thanksgiving parades. He went home & told his mother that he thought that Philadelphia was a lot like Charlotte because of the people. No one told him anything ahead of time. He made his own observation.
I've met a lot of people in the 3+ years that I have lived here who knew the Philadelphia mill workers who followed the mill jobs to Gaston & Cleveland Counties in the 60s & 70s. They've all commented on how the Philadelphians fit in. That fits with the North Carolinians & Virginians who I worked with in Philadelphia & South Jersey who always said that they didn't see a big difference.
Think whatever you want, but do not insult me for having a different point of view.
You have my deepest apology. But I just got one question? Does Atlanta feel like Philidelphia too???
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Oh i misinterpreted that my mistake. Ok now were getting somewhere. Now I want to know what did you observe to make you come to that conclusion?
This is not the Atlanta board or the Georgia board. I have not been there recently, but never, since the mid '70s, did I feel that Georgia was MidAtlantic.
My friend, who has been dead for many years, was from Rome, not Atlanta. I have been to Rome more often than Atlanta. I did have an interesting conversation with her father, though. He spent time at Fort Dix during WWII. He said that he & his friends liked South Jersey & thought it was like North Carolina. He said that some of his friends met girls in South Jersey & settled there after the war.
I'm not going to continue this, because I still feel that you are looking for an arguement. Go take a drive on Rt 13 on Delmarva, as others have posted.
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Oh i misinterpreted that my mistake. Ok now were getting somewhere. Now I want to know what did you observe to make you come to that conclusion?
