What aboot Virginia is Northern? (Richmond, Hampton: school, community college, restaurants)

[01va571]

Originally Posted by Richmonder27

I agree with everything except the rednecks. That doesnt make a place Southern. They have plenty of them up Nawth.

Yeah but the rednecks up nawth are different, they don’t proudly wave they're Rebel flags in the honor of the state roots southern culture. Comparing a hillbilly from upstate New York, with rednecks from Dixie, will most definitely have mixed results. Sure, they both love NASCAR, drive beat up pick up trucks, and shoot trespassers on sight, yet its not quite the same kind of breed of redneck.

[PrinceTheo]

Originally Posted by 01va571

Yeah but the rednecks up nawth are different, they don’t proudly wave they're Rebel flags in the honor of the state roots southern culture. Comparing a hillbilly from upstate New York, with rednecks from Dixie, will most definitely have mixed results. Sure, they both love NASCAR, drive beat up pick up trucks, and shoot trespassers on sight, yet its not quite the same kind of breed of redneck.

Saw a confederate flag once in south jersey. Its a state of mind.

[01va571]

Originally Posted by PrinceTheo

Saw a confederate flag once in south jersey. Its a state of mind.

In Jersey????????? 1@#*^&!!!!

Well, let my brain process that.

1.) Maybe the person who had the flag hanging had roots in the south.

2.) South Jersey is a short drive to Delaware, I have seen allot of confederate crap there........Jersey doesn’t sound that crazy for someone to have something like that I suppose.....(Not really, south jersey maybe)

3.) I been upstate New York, didn’t see one flag there. However I did learn from my friends relatives up-there that cell phones are a thing of the past, everybody seems to have all there family members on them walkie talkies or a handheld transceivers per say. Most were farmers, and yes the word Rebel came out more than once, Damn Yankee's.

[PrinceTheo]

Originally Posted by 01va571

in jersey????????? 1@#*^&!!!!

Yep

[01va571]

Originally Posted by PrinceTheo

Yep

I actually almost forgot about that state. I think the last cool thing I can remember coming out of New Jersey was Carl from Aqua Teen.

[Richmonder27]

Originally Posted by 01va571

Yeah but the rednecks up nawth are different, they don’t proudly wave they're Rebel flags in the honor of the state roots southern culture. Comparing a hillbilly from upstate New York, with rednecks from Dixie, will most definitely have mixed results. Sure, they both love NASCAR, drive beat up pick up trucks, and shoot trespassers on sight, yet its not quite the same kind of breed of redneck.

No but its an attitude, more than anything else.

Ironically, I find that Southern rednecks have more in common with Yankees- with their kinda of lack of manners and gentility , and harsher way of speaking.

[Richmonder27]

Originally Posted by 01va571

Really I think it's because more people from different areas are moving in so it doesn’t seem southern really (Northern Virginia). When you look at the architecture and so forth Virginia certainly rubs off southern.

Check out these pics.

Charles City


Lynchburg



A cotton field near the Great Dismal Swamp, Suffolk VA


Fredericksburg


Roanoke city skyline



Oatland Plantation Leesburg, VA


Lynchburg


House in Roanoke



Williamsburg


Harrisonburg


Danville


Staunton

Did you know that Oatlands plantation is in Northern Virginia?
Thats why I always felt that Northern Virginia was always the gateway to the South. Loudoun County is where you begin to see the plantation houses like that. There are a few in Eastern Maryland, but Loudoun/Fairfax was the Carter's Family domain, and they are one of the Southern dynasties.

More from Loudoun County:

Oak Hill


Chesnut Hill


White Hall Plantation



Rasbperry Plain


BTW- The plantations in the Deep South were copying Virginia living and lifestyle, because that was the origin of the Southern plantations in the USA since Virginia is the oldest of the Southern states.

Much of the culture comes from SW England- where the landed gentry and the third sons came over to Virginia and the Carolinas.

[01va571]

Originally Posted by Richmonder27

Did you know that Oatlands plantation is in Northern Virginia?
Thats why I always felt that Northern Virginia was always the gateway to the South. Loudoun County is where you begin to see the plantation houses like that. There are a few in Eastern Maryland, but Loudoun/Fairfax was the Carter's Family domain, and they are one of the Southern dynasties.

More from Loudoun County:

Oak Hill


Chesnut Hill


White Hall Plantation



Rasbperry Plain


BTW- The plantations in the Deep South were copying Virginia living and lifestyle, because that was the origin of the Southern plantations in the USA since Virginia is the oldest of the Southern states.

Much of the culture comes from SW England- where the landed gentry and the third sons came over to Virginia and the Carolinas.

Yeah dude I knew the Oatland plantation was in Loudoun. Great Pics though. Thomas Jefferson architecture is my favorite out of most of the early buildings in Virginia.

[01va571]

Originally Posted by Richmonder27

No but its an attitude, more than anything else.

Ironically, I find that Southern rednecks have more in common with Yankees- with their kinda of lack of manners and gentility , and harsher way of speaking.

Its more than an attitude, I can understand a redneck from up state New York when they speak, it’s a different story in South Carolina, or Louisiana. That awful Creole Jibba jibbel jabber they speak in NNNawlins is unbearable.

[Richmonder27]

Originally Posted by 01va571

Its more than an attitude, I can understand a redneck from up state New York when they speak, it’s a different story in South Carolina, or Louisiana. That awful Creole Jibba jibbel jabber they speak in NNNawlins is unbearable.

People in N'awlins sound like they're from Brookyln


When I hear Northern rednecks they sound pretty grating on my ears. But so do redneck southern accents.

Im used the soft drawls of Virginia Tidewater.