Does PG county come off as southern to you?

[tcave360]

Originally Posted by adelphi_sky

Every county in the DC Baltimore area has a rural tier or a rural "feeling" tier. Go to northeastern Montgomery county or out toward Leesburg on RT. 15 north toward West Virginia. That's what I like about this area. You can get a fresh change of scenery without having to drive too far.

Maryland truly does live up to its nickname as "America in Miniature" in this case doesn't it? Large forests, the coastal plains of the Chesapeake, Eastern Shore marshland and Atlantic sandy beaches, various swathes and patches of farmland and general rural areas, the encroaching Appalachian Mountains in Western Maryland, the many suburban jurisdictions that are either typical Suburbia or distinctly Maryland or general DMV with varied degrees of density and build-form, the maritime and Naval culture of Annapolis in Central MD, the industrial blue-collar urban culture of Baltimore in Northern MD, the cosmopolitan white-collar urban culture of Washington D.C. in Southern MD, the solidly or leaning Northern culture of Northern, Central, and most of Southern Maryland and the solidly or leaning Southern culture of Eastern Shore and Western Maryland. All of this within an easy access and close distance of each other! A small Mid-Atlantic state of such stark contrasts in regards to geographical terrain, regional political ideologies, regional cultures, and three primary cities (DC, B-more, and Annapolis) that influences the state's urban and suburban development patterns with the rural areas and small towns just around the corner in some parts. Not to mention the incredibly diverse metropolitan areas of both Baltimore and Washington D.C. America in Miniature indeed!

[mwruckman]

Originally Posted by Mahatma X

IDK why but much of PG county comes off as southern to me. Largo, Upper Marlboro, Clinton, Brandywine, FT. Washington, Oxon Hill, Glassmanor, Accokeek, Camp Springs, Suitland, and pretty much everything south of Riverdale feels kinda country to me. Maybe its because of the large black population and black people in PG county like the whole big house, big car type thing like they do down south. Compared Baltimore, and even MoCo its just really different.

No ,it comes off more like New Jersey especially Hudson Country New Jersey.

[PGC Native]

Atlanta has far better construction standards. All brick homes are the norm and if a home sided it's hardiplank, or wood, not vinyl. There is a certain cheapness and builder's grade quality of PG County (and much of Maryland) I have not seen anywhere else in the country. All homes in PG built after 1990 seem to be the same exact colonial floorplan in varying sizes. The strip malls are all predictable. There is no variety like the Southern US has.

Older parts/inner areas of PG are more Northeastern in feel like University Park.

There is some southern-ness in places like Croom, Upper Marlboro equestrian areas and Queen Anne Bridge Road, but it is mostly resulting from a time when the area was truly Southern. Large-scale developers are quickly trying to eradicate any rural charm lingering in the area...see Beechtree and develops like that that were once rural. In areas like Croom you see roads that are barely one lane wide, merely chipped and sealed gravel, tin roofed shacks here and there, old tobacco barns, etc. That adds a bit of southern charm to an otherwise sterile, generically Maryland feel.

[David_J]

Originally Posted by molukai

I dunno... I think Western MD is much more 'Southern' than the aforementioned SoMD areas. Just passed through there yesterday and all I saw were the following imagery: Souped up muscle cars, pickup trucks, truckstop diners, trucker caps and plaid shirts, gas stations that have you fill up BEFORE you pay, early 20th century barnyards, etc.

You'd find tons of them in the rural lower Midwest and in SW Pennsylvania too. It's not exclusively a Southern thing. And you won't find many of what you've mentioned in Hagerstown, either - you gotta go to far western MD, west of Cumberland.

[Mahatma X]

Originally Posted by mwruckman

No ,it comes off more like New Jersey especially Hudson Country New Jersey.

Man shut up.. you fired.