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New Orleans culture is different from other southern cultures, which are different from other southern cultures which is my point. How ever you turn the south monolithic and pic whatever city best fits your stereotype that's the exact contradiction of what I’m asking.
but you must acknowledge that there are quite a few cultural similarities that tie the south together.
southern culture is not molithic, but there are certain things that all southern culture areas share (cuisine, dialect sounds, customs). if you take fifty thousand new yorkers and drop them in georgia that area is not going to be southern culturally.
whether your in western kentucky, middle alabama east texas or southwest virginia, they are going to pronounce "fine" "fahn" and "thing" "thang", there will be grits, sweet tea, greens, there will be a baptist presence, etc. southern culture is not monolithic, but there are commonalities that group southern subcultures together, commonalities that cities dominated by northern transplants do not share.
There is a somewhat monolithic cohesiveness to the South - but some variation - but in general yes it holds together
I would agree SF and LA are slightly different but both west coast
Philly and Boston same way - but in general have charistics that create a cohesion and bond
but this thread is about differences, "To counter the monolithic southern threads since the south is diverse, what city do you feel has the best version of southern culture?" get it?
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Originally Posted by EndersDrift
Can Florida play too? We don't get to be a part of any regions.
Florida is part of the New South, any florida city can be an option.
but you must acknowledge that there are quite a few cultural similarities that tie the south together.
Like what?...
cause it isn't food. I learned that when I went to Savannah from Atlanta and they had a diet primarily on seafood and lowcountry boil when in Atlanta it's chicken; (seafood is not as popular cause it more expensive since ATL is landlocked I guess... chicken's cheap ).
It isn't the accent cause people from NO sound totally diffrent from ATL and ATL sounds totallly diffrent from Savannah
From my experience behaviors and tradtions are different.
Some places are more agrarian, some cities are mostly manufaturing while like where I'm from it's more business and industrial.
diffrent politics... diffrent enviroment from Altanta dogwoods to Florida palm trees...
In many ways driving to a new state is like traveling to a new country. The grass is even diffrent when you cross the border
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Originally Posted by JimmyJohnWilson
southern culture is not molithic, but there are certain things that all southern culture areas share (cuisine, dialect sounds, customs). if you take fifty thousand new yorkers and drop them in georgia that area is not going to be southern culturally.
Um, there are already hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in Atlanta....
And there cultural similarities that tie Americans together.
yea, but you know what im saying.
southern food is quite similar accross the south, or at least the majority of it. vegatbles cooked with pork as seasoning, and a number of items (chess pie, hushpuppies, grits, that are found only in the south). the variations of southern accents all all similar pronunciations of words. fine=fahne, thing=thang.
you series of videos shows that it is not monolithic, yes that is true. that is why there are subregions in the south. but you must also acknowledge that there are certain aspects of all cultures considered southern that are shared, and not found in the rest of the US.
when an area becomes dominated by northern culture, while still in the south, it is no longer southern culturally.
Um, there are already hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in Atlanta....
exactly
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