Are North Carolina and Virginia becomming less "Southern?" (house, living)
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I believe that NW Mississippi near Memphis has as well.
Negative. Go visit Northwest Mississippi. There are very, very few transplants (people from the adjacent areas of the Arkansas Delta, Greater Memphis, or elsewhere in Mississippi are not transplants). Very few people from outside the Mid-South move to Northwest Mississippi...
True, maybe not as slow as in the South, but those parts of those states are more laid back and aren't as hectic in terms of pace as the biggest metros in those states. This is considering that all of these regions have areas that are a part of metros that have at least 1 million people, if not more than one of such areas.
Negative again, my man. The rural areas of Upstate New York are extraordinarily country, and just as slow as nearly anywhere I've ever been in the South...
Negative again, my man. The rural areas of Upstate New York are extraordinarily country, and just as slow as nearly anywhere I've ever been in the South...
I read that as the region in general, not just the rural areas.
In terms of NW MS, I know some were working at the casinos in Tunica and some of the towns next to Memphis have seen a good amount of growth(Horn Lake as one example), but I don't know about the rest of the region. Olive Branch, Hernando and Southaven also come to mind. Here is an interesting thread: //www.city-data.com/forum/missi...n-lake-ms.html
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I read that as the region in general, not just the rural areas.
In terms of NW MS, I know some were working at the casinos in Tunica and some of the towns next to Memphis have seen a good amount of growth(Horn Lake as one example), but I don't know about the rest of the region. Olive Branch, Hernando and Southaven also come to mind. Here is an interesting thread: //www.city-data.com/forum/missi...n-lake-ms.html
Oh yeah, I follow you. I lived in Southaven my 8th grade school year, still ride through when I go visit my grandmother in Memphis. The transplants in DeSoto County are "black flight" from Memphians leaving the ghettoes of the city; Mississippians of all races from the Delta and points southward; Latinos coming up from Texas and Louisiana to work the casinos. There is a noticeable Midwest presence as well, from St. Louis particularly, but they can't account for more than a slice of the population...
Oh yeah, I follow you. I lived in Southaven my 8th grade school year, still ride through when I go visit my grandmother in Memphis. The transplants in DeSoto County are "black flight" from Memphians leaving the ghettoes of the city; Mississippians of all races from the Delta and points southward; Latinos coming up from Texas and Louisiana to work the casinos. There is a noticeable Midwest presence as well, from St. Louis particularly, but they can't account for more than a slice of the population...
Yeah, I wouldn't mistake it for Raleigh or Austin(lol), but by Mississippi standards, it is probably as good as it gets.
How else do you classify a place other than those terms? You tell me a better way instead of poking fun at me if you're so intelligent and above me...oh wait you're not
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Negative again, my man. The rural areas of Upstate New York are extraordinarily country, and just as slow as nearly anywhere I've ever been in the South...
Having lived in Louisiana for nearly a decade, I can agree. The biggest difference I noticed is that there are a good number of natively rural upstaters who seem to pine for the urban life and join it even without having lived in a city.
For example, my sister grew up as country and poor as I did. But unlike myself, she hates rural life and has urbanized herself by choice. She speaks WAY TOO fast, she's hellbent that everything she says is correct, she's not at all fond of the south, and she loves NYC.
She's not anything like the rest of us but she has never lived in a large city.
I never noticed that happen to rural southerners. But then, I may just have not noticed.
Another difference is that even in small towns here fast food places are really really really quick. Like, whiplash fast. But I think its because business owners here tend to be stricter, and most of them are from India.
The last 9+ posts have had nothing to do with Virginia or North Carolina folks......
I live in the Hampton Roads/VA Beach metro and IT IS becoming less southern which is neither good or bad, it just is.
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