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Originally Posted by tcave360
Uh no. Most people in DC consider themselves East Coast or Mid-Atlantic over Southern. Washingtonians have Southern influences but it's not prevalent enough to warrant them as such. Me being from Maryland just across the DC line, I never once considered myself Southern. The accent and lingo is distinctly unique from both regions. And don't even think about bringing up the over-used Mason-Dixon Line garbage because it wasn't established to draw the dividing line between North and South but it's true purpose was to help settle a land dispute between Pennsylvania, Maryland, and IIRC Delaware. Fact of the matter is, around here, your not really in The South until you travel 30 miles south of Fredericksburg, VA.
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I'm going by simple geography, i'm not one of those General US posters who spends his entire lunch break on City-Data over exaggerating the cultural differences between the South and the rest of the country.
Culturally, there really is no border.
Geography?
I go by the US Census regions
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/ri...appendix_c.gif
Congratulations, you are a Southerner! (not that it makes you much different from the rest of us)