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2. DC (VA and MD are very Southern)
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LMFAO...no, no, no, NO they are not...There is nothing "very southern" about Northern Virginia - which is totally different from the rest of the state - or Suburban Maryland. And Maryland's southerness is debated as much as Texas and Florida, if not more. My relatives from the Deep South think of Maryland as "Up North," while people from New York and New England think of it as "The South." As a resident of Maryland, I just call it Mid-Atlantic because there are too many elements of both the North and South here.
- Former resident of Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee
LMFAO...no, no, no, NO they are not...There is nothing "very southern" about Northern Virginia - which is totally different from the rest of the state - or Suburban Maryland. And Maryland's southerness is debated as much as Texas and Florida, if not more. My relatives from the Deep South think of Maryland as "Up North," while people from New York and New England think of it as "The South." As a resident of Maryland, I just call it Mid-Atlantic because there are too many elements of both the North and South here.
- Former resident of Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee
Northern Virginia is only "totally different" from certain parts of the state. There are Nova-esque elements of psuedo-urban, hyper-suburbia in both Central Virginia (Far West End Richmond/Short Pump) and Southside Hampton Roads. There are elements of more normal suburban, even rural parts of Nova, in Charlottesville, Culpeper, etc...
The limited spaces if true urban form in Northern Virginia is pretty much limited to Alexandria, a slice if Arlington, and an even smaller slice of Fairfax. The core if Richmond City is larger than the entire ****ing city of Alexandria, which is nothing more than "DC South", and being that there are several similarities between DC and Richmond, it stands to reason that Alexandria can't be "totally different" from Richmond...and Old Towne Alexandria is thought by some to have strong resemblance to its counterparts in Portsmouth and Petersburg...
There is tons of cultural crossover between Northern Virginia and Greater Richmond. Universities aand education, arts and music, trips and destinations, shopping, etc. The general accent heard in Northern Virginia is not one different from that of Richmond City and its immediate suburbs, nor truly different from that of the Williamsburg-Jamestown area, or parts of the Southside Tidewater (Virginia Beach, some of Norfolk)...
NoVa is one of the few mega-suburbs in the country. It borders a global city and this has the amenities and daily functions of a large metropolis, without being home to a major city itself in its proper....That's what is totally different about NoVa. There is an "Urban Virginia" subculture that is evident in the other urbanized regions, and any Virginian who would say it isn't obviously has little to no intimate knowledge of areas outside of Nova...
I'm so tired of this board trying to seperate NoVa from Virginia. This is not an accurate reflection of reality, as I've never witnessed this in my personal life, like, ever...
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Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205
Maryland reminded me of parts of New Jersey when I visited.
Maryland has elements of every single state it borders, and though it doesn't border Jersey, there are some links there--they both border Delaware and PA so it stands to reason they share some things. Jersey definitely isn't the state Maryland most resembles, though...
Northern Virginia is only "totally different" from certain parts of the state. There are Nova-esque elements of psuedo-urban, hyper-suburbia in both Central Virginia (Far West End Richmond/Short Pump) and Southside Hampton Roads. There are elements of more normal suburban, even rural parts of Nova, in Charlottesville, Culpeper, etc...
The limited spaces if true urban form in Northern Virginia is pretty much limited to Alexandria, a slice if Arlington, and an even smaller slice of Fairfax. The core if Richmond City is larger than the entire ****ing city of Alexandria, which is nothing more than "DC South", and being that there are several similarities between DC and Richmond, it stands to reason that Alexandria can't be "totally different" from Richmond...and Old Towne Alexandria is thought by some to have strong resemblance to its counterparts in Portsmouth and Petersburg...
There is tons of cultural crossover between Northern Virginia and Greater Richmond. Universities aand education, arts and music, trips and destinations, shopping, etc. The general accent heard in Northern Virginia is not one different from that of Richmond City and its immediate suburbs, nor truly different from that of the Williamsburg-Jamestown area, or parts of the Southside Tidewater (Virginia Beach, some of Norfolk)...
NoVa is one of the few mega-suburbs in the country. It borders a global city and this has the amenities and daily functions of a large metropolis, without being home to a major city itself in its proper....That's what is totally different about NoVa. There is an "Urban Virginia" subculture that is evident in the other urbanized regions, and any Virginian who would say it isn't obviously has little to no intimate knowledge of areas outside of Nova...
I'm so tired of this board trying to seperate NoVa from Virginia. This is not an accurate reflection of reality, as I've never witnessed this in my personal life, like, ever...
You seem upset.
Maybe "Totally Different" was an exaggeration since I do see similarities to NOVA and the rest of the urban parts of the state, so on that, I do agree. You were so busy typing all of those words that you missed my point that I was responding to the poster that NOVA is not "very southern." I'd argue the same for Hampton Roads and Richmond - although they're more southern to me than NOVA. Also, I know you're a native Virginian, but I've heard the whole NOVA vs. ROVA ("Rest of Virginia") arguments from other Native Virginians - although a lot of them are from SW VA, which probably feels alienated and isolated from the more populated parts of the state along 95 and 64.
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