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Lots of “native” non southerners here now. Transplants children and grandchildren with zero roots in the South. They and everyone else help make this place interesting. Most of my friends are born and raised here or are from small town NC and moved here after college. I talk to customers all the time who aren’t from here and many say they have never met a Raleigh native nor have any native NC’ers in their new suburban neighborhoods.
10 years ago, a lot of "Southern" people that lived in Raleigh moved to Apex for the lower prices and still "Southern charm". Demographically, Apex is no longer Southern. 20 years ago it was Wake Forest, even as Heritage was developed - a lot of more local people.
I suppose I'd say Knightdale less/Zebulon more might be your only choices now, but they will be rapidly de-"Southernizing".
Maybe add Creedmoor to that list. It's a bit closer than some others to the triangle, but seems to be a typical southern town when I cut through on my way to I-85 North.
I heard somewhere that while Cary NC is a southern city basically everyone is a Yankee or Immigrant. Lots of people from the New York City Metro area.
I also heard that about fifty percent of Raleigh residents are from outside the south.
Is there any City of Raleigh neighborhood or community in the greater Raleigh metro area that has a more traditional southern culture? Where most of the residents grew up in the south. Chapel Hill? Wake Forest, Apex? Holly Springs? Morrisville? Knightdale? Garner? Fuquay-Varina? or Carrboro?
Garner and Knightdale are the only two on this list I would say 'yes' but both are also starting to change. Once 540 rolls through both, all bets are off.
Wendell and Zeublon are worth your time to check out. Neither town is growing at a fast rate like the others in Wake County are.
I have no preference for a northern or southern person in my community. My question just was related to how many southern cities have changed in the last 10-20 years and much of the change is a large number of people moving there who are not from the south.
I remember going into a fast food restaurant in Dallas 30 years ago and hearing almost everyone speaking southern in a Texas way. The same with Nashville, Atlanta, Tallahassee, Houston and Charlotte. These used to be southern cities and now they are mostly yankee or filled with people from the midwest or west.
Though a recent trip across Alabama, Arkansas and Mississispi showed me the southern culture, accent and way of life is still going strong all over these in those states.
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