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Maryland was a slave state -- and until the '60s a true Jim Crow state-- which is why it is often considered "old south." But it remained in the Union during the Civil war and did not join the Confederacy. It was also the most southern big city on the Atlantic Coast to take on the industry and many physical characteristics of the Mid Atlantic and Northeast cities. So in many ways even today Baltimore looks like a northern city and feels like a southern one.
I'd venture to say that it looks southern too. I don't consider rowhouses a defining feature of northern cities since Richmond, Savannah, and Charleston all have rowhouses. Baltimore may be the the only majority rowhouse city in the south, but that also applies to the north too except for Philly.
Very tough choice between New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah. They are all very different but so much Old Southern. I can't really pick a favorite out of the three. I might go with Savannah out of the three, mainly for the old live oaks that dominate all of the different squares, but you'd have to hold a gun to my head for me to make that choice.
What I mean by "Gone with the Wind"-esque simply means what the South was portrayed as looking like in the Antebellum period in the early (pre Civil War) part of the 1939 American film Gone with the Wind. Not all aspects, especially not the personality of the particular characters, would be what I am looking for, but rather the old sociological aspects of it, such as the prevalence of large-scale (500 acres or more) farming of staple crops (cotton, coffee, sugar, rice, indigo, tobacco) done historically by slaves (20 or more slaves specifically), historic prevalence of lavish Greek Revival or Colonial or Greco-Roman classical style mansions, especially on the large plantations; And The historical dependence of local industry on the trade or production of said staple crops; the prevalence of a landed planter-capitalist class in local spheres of influence, particularly as religious, political, or business leaders. Modern aspect of this said area would include the prevalence or higher than average concentration of antebellum mansions, an active movement for the historical preservation of Antebellum mansions, prevalence among college-graduate whites in being graduates of schools belonging to the Southeastern Conference, ACC, Big 12, American Athletic Conference, C-USA, Sun Belt Conference, Big South, Colonial Athletics Association, Ohio Valley Conference, Southern Conference, Pioneer Football League, or Southland Conference college athletics associations and conferences (but especially ACC, Big 10, C-USA, Sunbelt, and AAC, and doubly especially the SEC), the dependency on farming or natural resources, manufacturing, trade, retail, hospitality industries, or logistics as being the main economy today for said localities or other kinds of areas rather than advanced services industries, and the prevalence of a closed society dominated by a few rich people with a lot of old money originally made early on in the 19th century from planting or other industries found in the 19th Century in the South.
What I mean by the Southern United States is the whole of the state defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as being the "South" census region of the United States, Delaware, Maryland, The District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The reason for me asking this is because I've been interested in these kinds of areas, and would like to travel to more of them, trying to figure out what's next.
Let me know which areas are the most "Old South" to you. I say Natchez since it has the most antebellum mansions as a concentration per square mile. Especially old Antebellum mansions that are National Historic Landmarks.
Florida was admitted as a state in 1845 and became part of the Confederacy 15 years later until the end of the Civil war 5 years later.
What parts of Florida were Antibellum?
Florida was admitted as a state in 1845 and became part of the Confederacy 15 years later until the end of the Civil war 5 years later.
What parts of Florida were Antibellum?
Even though it was the setting for " Gone With The Wind " and home to a people and cullture reflective of the Deep South's, Atlanta was somehow excluded from the list.
Even though it was the setting for " Gone With The Wind " and home to a people and cullture reflective of the Deep South's, Atlanta was somehow excluded from the list.
Even though it was the setting for " Gone With The Wind " and home to a people and cullture reflective of the Deep South's, Atlanta was somehow excluded from the list.
Atlanta was about commerce & transportation, not plantations.
Haha!
St. Augustine is the oldest city in the US settled by Spain.
Nothing Southern or Antibellum about it.
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