D.C. is a southern city.... (money, cities, island)
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Yeah at the end of the day Mid-Atlantic is the best way to describe this area. That "urrr" is not northern but I still say its not southern. The DC uurrea does its own thing and that's a good thing. Still say this is the north (see how I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth) at the end of the day. But perhaps its north-lite? I don't know.
lmao mane we cant help it.
i dont know what influenced our dialect to stretch our R's like we do in the D.C. urrrrrea.
Anywho going back to the accents. I actually think the rolling the R thing is cool. DC does have a LOT of regional phrases and words. And some I'm sure take their cues from Southern roots but still say its more northern than southern. Which isn't really a bad thing.
lmao mane we cant help it.
i dont know what influenced our dialect to stretch our R's like we do in the D.C. urrrrrea.
Well I guess every urrrea does its own thing. I mean like down home in Columbus, GA "folk" is kinda like "dude". "What up folk?" is kinda common or "Don't take that chair. Somebody sitting there folk." but I haven't spent much time down home outside my family that I might be out of touch and there's a new lingo on the streets. But I know I've never heard anyone outisde my hometown use the term in that way.
I lived in northern VA for most of my life. Throughout school, we are just simply told that we were a southern state. I didn't really experience the southerness until i moved down to southern VA. Its a completely different world outside of NoVA/ DC metro area. Despite what lines are where, the population in DC are not southerners.
Not really. I'm from Columbus, Ohio, and we were labeled the same thing by Clevelanders who mocked our lack of lake-effect snow and propensity to close schools for 4" of white powder.
Really. I couldn't care less about what happens in Columbus, Ohio. It's generally a very safe statement to say that northerners can handle snow better than southerners.
What makes a Southern state? Is it the history or is it the culture? Besides all the stereotypes, what makes a good comparison to the Southern state?
Good BBQ? TN and Ohio started to having really good BBQ
Good Manners? They have good manners here and in NY (just not in NJ)
Puffy party dress? I don't know, I'm a man
It's good to think about it. Because if you look at AL, TN and GA (especially GA), the cultural, financial, social classification and all those anthropological implications, besides having a walkable side streets, you have a fairly close city culture from DC with rest of the Southern states.
Yeah at the end of the day Mid-Atlantic is the best way to describe this area. That "urrr" is not northern but I still say its not southern. The DC uurrea does its own thing and that's a good thing. Still say this is the north (see how I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth) at the end of the day. But perhaps its north-lite? I don't know.
So you saying DC dudes talk with St. Louis "Country Grammar" like this
DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and NYC are all Mid-Atlantic cities. If Philadelphia and NYC are classified as part of the Northeast, then wouldn't it make sense that DC and Baltimore are also categorised as such? It seems a bit non-sensical for a region of the US to be part of both the North and the South at the same time.
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