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Y'all sure do know how to separate folks based on perceived class here.
It doesn't have anything to do with class. It has to do with linguistics. NC State has a great set of videos on the different accents in NC. There's the NC Piedmont, the Virginia Piedmont (aka Tidewater), the Southern Highlands (aka Mountain), the Coastal Plain, and the Outer Banks. https://languageandlife.org/dialectquiz/dialectquiz.php
Mine is mostly Coastal Plain + maybe a little Piedmont. But I can do a great mountain accent (my mom was from the mountains of SW Va) and a pretty good thick Piedmont accent too.
Anyway, that's a little off topic, but when a Southerner says another Southerner sounds really "country" or has a "country" accent, we mean a thick, pronounced accent. It's someone who didn't try to lose it. Doesn't really have anything to do with where you live.
The Northeast is a Big Thing... I doubt it will be like the inner rings of Greater New York or DC, or much of New Jersey. Parts of the Triangle remind me of Westchester and Fairfield Counties, though. Mixed, and getting MORE mixed, most likely ending up as a hybrid with the biz end more like Any Corporate Park, Anywhere, and socially tending more Tidewater-ish.
Anyway, that's a little off topic, but when a Southerner says another Southerner sounds really "country" or has a "country" accent, we mean a thick, pronounced accent. It's someone who didn't try to lose it. Doesn't really have anything to do with where you live.
My accent is somewhere between a Spring Hope and a MomeyerI grew up on the fringe of Raleigh near Raleigh Country Club, but I had a lot of farming influence near Pilot where my roots run deep. I never tried to change my accent and never would.
Compared to most of the state especially the more rural areas, and a majority of the South outside cities like Atlanta, Raleigh might as well be Massachusetts. Now actually compared to Massachusetts, Raleigh is definitely Southern. So it's both, or neither depending on how you personally look at it. But it's not solidly one or the other.
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I guess a lot of people, when they think Southern, think Rural. But Southern cities and Southern country are, and have been, very different. North Carolina has always had a different feel than, say, Mississippi or Alabama. More of a blend of South and Mid-Atlantic. That probably goes back to before the Civil War. The "Southerness" of Raleigh has shifted somewhat since the current "Northern influx/invasion" began (which I'd date to the opening of the IBM site and the relocation of workers from places like Kingston and Poughkeepsie), but I think most assimilate rather well.
I'd call it Southern Culture....on the Skids.
What you did there.......
...I see it
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I’d say all the NC cities are completely southern.
That’s not a bad thing. For the suburbs, it’s even a compliment. No one does nice suburbs like the south.
But Raleigh definitely fits the Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa, Houston, Nashville mold than DC, Philly, NYC, Boston mold. In nearly every single way. Southern isn’t a bad thing to be...
My accent is somewhere between a Spring Hope and a MomeyerI grew up on the fringe of Raleigh near Raleigh Country Club, but I had a lot of farming influence near Pilot where my roots run deep. I never tried to change my accent and never would.
I lived in Bunn for a few years as a small person.
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I've never been to Bunn. Not even to see the lake.
Odd, with folks from Pilot.
Bunn Lake is in Zebulon, though.
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My wife says WAR-der too. She’s a Cary Imp.
