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Florida. South Florida is pretty different than the rest of the state, but even that has its own differences. Miami Dade County is much more latin than Broward or Palm Beach and the Keys are their own unique way of life. Broward and Palm Beach have much more Northeast than Dade.
Southwest FL is the typical retirement Florida you think of as are parts of NE and Central Florida (Palm Coast).
Tampa and Orlando are relatively similar mid major cities, and probably the biggest blend in the state, especially Tampa. Large cuban, southern and retiree influence.
The rest of the state (interior south, all of the north and the entire panhandle) is quite Southern culturally.
I have to go with California here, with starkest regional differences between the inland and coastal cities. I'm saying that Riverside, San Bernandino, Fresno, Stockton and Bakersfield are all vastly different from San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Jose.
New York, California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida all have very stark regional differences, for reasons already stated. I'd also throw in Maryland into the mix - just try comparing Elkton to Cumberland to Bethesda to Salisbury to Baltimore.
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New York, California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida all have very stark regional differences, for reasons already stated. I'd also throw in Maryland into the mix - just try comparing Elkton to Cumberland to Bethesda to Salisbury to Baltimore.
I'll second that, I stopped at a diner in Salisbury and had oysters. The waitresses there had thick southern accents. It is definitely quite the contrast to the Beltway burbs and Baltimore for sure.
I'll second that, I stopped at a diner in Salisbury and had oysters. The waitresses there had thick southern accents. It is definitely quite the contrast to the Beltway burbs and Baltimore for sure.
What diner did you stop in? Salisbury has great seafood. And yes...that is where one can realize the "southerness" of Murland.
I'll second that, I stopped at a diner in Salisbury and had oysters. The waitresses there had thick southern accents. It is definitely quite the contrast to the Beltway burbs and Baltimore for sure.
I gave David_J rep. I agree completely. When I travel from Pittsburgh to the Maryland/VA coast, its a different world. When I'm in Garret/Allegheny County, MD I feel as though I'm in Pittsburgh's countryside. DC/Baltimore has a very strong east coast vibe. Once you cross the Chesapeake, it almost feels like the south to me.
The Baltimore-Washington corridor. DC and its suburbs are very different from Baltimore and its suburbs. DC is much cleaner and more gentrified than Baltimore. DC has minimal urban blight. Blocks and blocks of Baltimore consist of nothing but boarded up old factories and abandoned rowhomes. DC doesn't even have a skyline. DC is very status conscious, pretentious and has much wealth in most of the Northwest half of the city spilling out into surrounding Montgomery County in towns like Bethesda. Baltimore is very ghetto with everybody trying to get into your car like its a taxi cab to run a "hack". Heroin has ravaged swaths of Baltimore as dope fiends can be seen leaning at bus stops and sidewalks throughout the city. About half of DC is ghetto as well, but in a much more understated unsuspecting way much like California ghettos with very little visual blight and often empty daytime streets with seemingly well-maintained homes just with bars on the doors and windows.
Culturally, black DC natives and black Baltimore natives are very, very different. Black DC natives dress very different and have their own fashion trends (i.e. Helly Hansen jackets) as well as their own local style of music Go-Go, which is quickly dying because of gentrification of the District. Black Baltimoreans have their own music as well which is completely different in Baltimore Club music which is basically a local style of ghetto House music. Black Baltimoreans, as a whole, care much less about clothes than black DC natives. Many black Baltimoreans still wear played out 90's/early 2000's fashions like super baggy jeans and tall tees. Baltimoreans who do dress well often have similar style as black Philadelphians and some black New Yorkers who have a somewhat outdated more classic East Coast urban style (i.e. Pelle Pelle leather jackets). Baltimore and DC even have different ghetto carry out food corner store culture. DC is home of Mambo sauce. Baltimore is home of chicken boxes and half-and-half ice-tea/lemonades. Baltimore is also much more ghetto as a whole than DC. In Baltimore, you will see people drinking alcoholic swill in the middle of the day out of black plastic bags even walking downtown near Lexington Market. In DC, you don't see stuff like that unless you go to the heart of the hood in places like Anacostia. Predictably, the black natives of both cities generally don't like each other.
The DC Area does not have a sizable population of lower middle class or working class blue collar white people. White people in the DC Area work white collar office jobs and are upper middle class or wealthy coming from old money. Baltimore has large lower income white populations in the city, proper, in areas like Hampden and Pigtown as well as in surrounding Baltimore county in communities like Lansdowne, Essex and Brooklyn. Anne Arundel County is also home to a solid middle class of blue collar white workers. Baltimore suburbs are much less materialistic and status conscious than DC suburbs. In DC suburbs, people brag about their level of education and the prestige of their jobs. Even in Baltimore's wealthiest suburbs in Howard county, rich people tend not to be pretentious or brag about their levels of education or what they do for a living.
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