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VA doesn’t look “southern” though. The land looks well drained with deep ravines, hardwood forests and sandy river banks. The rivers aren’t muddy. The housing styles are different. The plantation homes and other historic houses are brick with slate roofs.
It isn’t night and day or anything. Southern Virginia looks similar to northern North Carolina. But Virginia doesn’t look anything like GA, SC (or points farther south and west) geographically or in its built form.
Historically the north eastern part of the state has been included in the Mid-Atlantic. The Raleigh area has some Mid-Atlantic vibes too (the people), the rest of NC not so much.
VA doesn’t look “southern” though. The land looks well drained with deep ravines, hardwood forests and sandy river banks. The rivers aren’t muddy. The housing styles are different. The plantation homes and other historic houses are brick with slate roofs.
It isn’t night and day or anything. Southern Virginia looks similar to northern North Carolina. But Virginia doesn’t look anything like GA, SC (or points farther south and west) geographically or in its built form.
Historically the north eastern part of the state has been included in the Mid-Atlantic. The Raleigh area has some Mid-Atlantic vibes too (the people), the rest of NC not so much.
"The plantation homes and other historic houses are brick with slate roofs."
Never been to Va. close to D,C., or Virginia Beach I see.
Well I live in Richmond, grew up in Hampton Roads and lived in Northern Virginia for a few years after college.
There isn’t a rock in Virginia that I have left untuned over my 54 years as a resident (well 52, I spent two years I. Columbus OH).
Off the top of my head..Westover, Lee Hall, Carters Grove, Warner Hall, Monticello, Bacons Castle (oldest brick home in the USA), Shirley, Berkeley, Poplar Forest, Arlington House, Stafford Hall, Rosewell (it’s ruins, the most gothic place in all of Tidewater, is where I’d go to listen to my cassettes, mostly the Cure’s Pornography, in the mid 80’s), Oaklands, Montpelier, the Carlyle House, the Nelson House… The only notable exceptions are Mount Vernon and Tuckahoe.
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VA doesn’t look “southern” though. The land looks well drained with deep ravines, hardwood forests and sandy river banks. The rivers aren’t muddy. The housing styles are different. The plantation homes and other historic houses are brick with slate roofs.
It isn’t night and day or anything. Southern Virginia looks similar to northern North Carolina. But Virginia doesn’t look anything like GA, SC (or points farther south and west) geographically or in its built form.
Historically the north eastern part of the state has been included in the Mid-Atlantic. The Raleigh area has some Mid-Atlantic vibes too (the people), the rest of NC not so much.
To each their own. When I first moved to DC metro 30+ years ago, lived in PG County, MD. Decided to move to NoVA side because it felt and looked more like NC. I have no idea about that other banter, they really aren’t that much different geographically, at all. Woods, mountains and ocean. I’m not sure what your seeing, really?
I've been coming back and forth to NC since I was 16. I'll be 35 in June. The only place I've heard anyone state or question both, if NC is Mid-Atlantic, or if NC isn't southern, is on this website, I swear to god...
Formerly lived in Fayetteville and Charlotte, currently in Raleigh, been to all the big cities here, been to many of the suburban and rural counties. Never in my life has this conversation come up in person...
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