Does Virginia have more similarities with Maryland or North Carolina? (farm, cars)

[jbgusa]

Virginia and Maryland voted for Clinton. North Carolina went for Trump.

[btownboss4]

I would like to mention South of Baltimore the Coastal geography of the East coast is very similar with estuaries penetrating deep inland through swamps/lowland plains. While the Northeast has pockets with extensive swamps (eg Portsmouth, NH’s Back Bay, Southern Queens) it’s much less extensive and there is no College Hill, Watch Hill or Bluffs right on he coast like there is from Baltimore northwards .

[NOVA_guy]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Virginia and Maryland voted for Clinton. North Carolina went for Trump.

Yep. I don’t buy the “North Carolina is going to be the next Virginia” argument - they have a ways to go. It’s still very much a southern state.

[personone]

Originally Posted by NOVA_guy

Yep. I don’t buy the “North Carolina is going to be the next Virginia” argument - they have a ways to go. It’s still very much a southern state.

Virginia is still very much a southern state too, outside of NoVA (3/4 of the state). As evidence by the rawkus in Charlottesville last year.

[mpier015]

Originally Posted by personone

Virginia is still very much a southern state too, outside of NoVA (3/4 of the state). As evidence by the rawkus in Charlottesville last year.

Charlottesville is actually a liberal area, those people who came to that rally were not from Virginia.

[VA All Day]

Originally Posted by mpier015

Charlottesville is actually a liberal area, those people who came to that rally were not from Virginia.

Real talk...can't believe this still has to be explained to folks.

[Piney Creek]

Originally Posted by personone

Virginia is still very much a southern state too, outside of NoVA (3/4 of the state). As evidence by the rawkus in Charlottesville last year.

Spoken by someone who doesn't live here, LOL.

If anyone is interested in what an actual Virginian thinks, I live in a small town that's nowhere near Nova. I wouldn't call it especially southern. Not particularly northern, either. Just a mix of people living their lives, pretty similar to everyone else in the country. Some people are more southern than others, but the same was also true when I lived in Indiana.

[Charlotte485]

Virginia seems so rural compared to NC. It’s a lot of rolling hills with red barns and giant crosses.

Of course you have the DC suburbs but that always felt like a different entity from the rest of VA to me.

[mpier015]

Originally Posted by Charlotte485

Virginia seems so rural compared to NC. It’s a lot of rolling hills with red barns and giant crosses.

Of course you have the DC suburbs but that always felt like a different entity from the rest of VA to me.

Along I-95 or 64?

[NOVA_guy]

Originally Posted by mpier015

Along I-95 or 64?

If you're talking about NoVa - 64 doesn't run through NoVa. If you mean 66, this is sort of a distinction without a difference - most NoVa suburbs all look the same whether it's on the 66 side or 95 side although the areas inside the beltway tend to be less homogeneous.