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For DC, a lack of a manufacturing/industrial background, and a lack of white ethnic neighborhoods. DC's growth rates resemble the sunbelt as well. Although none of that applies to Baltimore.
DC is a special case in regards to having an industrial background, but I see what u mean about white ethnic neighborhoods.
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Most AAs have southern roots. Personally the only thing I see southern about DC is the accent; however, not everyone from there has one.
I don't think there isn't much of an accent in D.C. There's no southern drawl or northern New Yorkish accent. It's just plain. Perhaps to me, it's plain just because I hear it all the time, but there really is no twang or drawl on it. It's just English as plain as it gets basically. However, you can go 50 miles outside of D.C (particularly Virginia, Southern Maryland, and the Eastern Shore) and certainly hear an accent with a good portion of the population there.
I use to date a from DC (sexy I might add) didn't have a generally southern accent, the way she pronounced certain words sounded a little southern, like when she said "well" it sounded like "whale". That dude slim Charles from the wire sounded kinda southern and he had a heavy DC accent.
DC is historically, geographically, and legally in the southern US.
The comprimise of 1790 established the founding of DC in the south in exchange for concessions from the south. The Federal census bureau puts in the south today.
Therefore based on the facts. DC is not a northeast city, but it is in the southern US instead. That's fact.
Frankly I do not see the arguement to the contrary...
(If I need to post links to these documents I can, but it is readily available on the internet.)
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DC is historically, geographically, and legally in the southern US.
The comprimise of 1790 established the founding of DC in the south in exchange for concessions from the south. The Federal census bureau puts in the south today.
Therefore based on the facts. DC is not a northeast city, but it is in the southern US instead. That's fact.
Frankly I do not see the arguement to the contrary...
(If I need to post links to these documents I can, but it is readily available on the internet.)
Yea but the only thing about it is that no one in DC considers themselves as "southerners" and thats no knock on Southerners it's just the mentality people have when they grow up in DC. Find me a DC person that prouldly says "Im frum da Saaaoouth shawty" and I'll give u a million bucks. It's just not who we identify with here. In the true south people proudly claim their region and quick to say "welcome to the south". We are more connected to the NE but, locals here still consider NY or Boston "up north" though still signifying a difference in DC vs parts of the EC further to the North. Which is why we really feel that DC is Mid-Atlantic. DC has city traits and characteristics of the North and lingering Southern history. We are not either one
The argument of the Census bureau is understood and respected as historically it was considered part of the South. But outside of having an indigenous European population rooted in the city and being majority black, DC doesn't really have any other characteristics of being Southern in 2011.
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