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For whatever the reason there’s a lot of threads about what cities are and aren’t culturally southern, as if the south is monolithic. What constitutes “southern” is different depending on what city your in. I have seen a few threads with the notion that a place can become, and un become southern due to a demographic shift. Henry W. Grady was a Atlantan his view on southern culture was to be cosmopolitan, he coin the term “the New south”. A southern city that becoming more cosmopolitan isn’t becoming less southern, the difference is the old south from the New.
There is no united southern culture, you can generalize all you want Nashville and New Orleans will be a apple and a orange. Cities in the south have different accents, cuisine, history and etc, southern culture is a broad topic that depends. To counter the monolithic southern threads since the south is diverse, what city do you feel has the best version of southern culture?
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Just seems like a good example of the quintessential Southern city - very charming. I think the issue with saying a larger city embodies the South would be they have the nuisances of larger cities without all the charm of some places in the South. So maybe they really don't do either well, or as well. Now a city like Birmingham is what it is and retains the charm that is the South.
For whatever the reason there’s a lot of threads about what cities are and aren’t culturally southern, as if the south is monolithic. What constitutes “southern” is different depending on what city your in. I have seen a few threads with the notion that a place can become, and un become southern due to a demographic shift. Henry W. Grady was a Atlantan his view on southern culture was to be cosmopolitan, he coin the term “the New south”. A southern city that becoming more cosmopolitan isn’t becoming less southern, the difference is the old south from the New.
There is no united southern culture, you can generalize all you want Nashville and New Orleans will be a apple and a orange. Cities in the south have different accents, cuisine, history and etc, southern culture is a broad topic that depends. To counter the monolithic southern threads since the south is diverse, what city do you feel has the best version of southern culture?
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.
Just seems like a good example of the quintessential Southern city - very charming. I think the issue with saying a larger city embodies the South would be they have the nuisances of larger cities without all the charm of some places in the South. So maybe they really don't do either well, or as well. Now a city like Birmingham is what it is and retains the charm that is the South.
Yeah you misunderstood my post the south is a group of cultures not one monolithic culture there no quintessential Southern city. I asking posters what southern city has the best version of southern culture.
Yeah you misunderstood my post the south is a group of cultures not one monolithic culture there no quintessential Southern city. I asking posters what southern city has the best version of southern culture.
To not be a Homer I going to say New Orleans.
No I understood; why I choose Birmingham Alabama - to me it matches what I percieve Southern culture to be.
To me New Orelan is unique - almost it's own culture and a gift to our country - one of my favorite places - especially to eat
No I understood; why I choose Birmingham Alabama - to me it matches what I percieve Southern culture to be.
To me New Orelan is unique - almost it's own culture and a gift to our country - one of my favorite places - especially to eat
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.
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.
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
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