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Strangely enough, when I think of "country" I think of my surroundings here in the North, which are cornfields, red barns, white farm houses, dirt roads, small towns with grain elevators, etc. When I have traveled in the South, my notion of "country" actually seems harder to find, or I don't see it at all. But that's just me. I have a warped perspective.
People in southern cities tend be give off a country vibe in one way or another anf EVERY city south of Philly is guilty of this, even D.C. and Baltimore although I wouldn't call them truly southern culturally, just a few southern nuances.
Once you get to Richmond people take pride in being southern and country.
People in southern cities tend be give off a country vibe in one way or another anf EVERY city south of Philly is guilty of this, even D.C. and Baltimore although I wouldn't call them truly southern culturally, just a few southern nuances.
Once you get to Richmond people take pride in being southern and country.
Nope but you are welcome to have your opinion, just like I have mines. There isn't that much difference between a person from ATL or Memphis and a person from Knoxville or Huntville. Same mannerisms, same mindsets, same rather slow pace of life, similar country accents though the degree can vary. To be fair STL is Midwestern as well as Chicago but thr people in those places, especially STL come off as country, real country especially the black population. Straight up Alabama bamas.
Nope but you are welcome to have your opinion, just like I have mines. There isn't that much difference between a person from ATL or Memphis and a person from Knoxville or Huntville. Same mannerisms, same mindsets, same rather slow pace of life, similar country accents though the degree can vary. To be fair STL is Midwestern as well as Chicago but thr people in those places, especially STL come off as country, real country especially the black population. Straight up Alabama bamas.
The problem is that your opinion is wrong. Complete nonsenSe.
NOT every city south of Philly gives off a "country" vibe. Not even close. But feel free to think that way.
I think it is because country music largely portrays south as all country with farmland, tractors and small communities. Like others have pointed out, farming/country life is very prevalent in the midwest too but there is nothing in the pop culture that portrays midwest that way.
Have you never been to Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and so on? That's the biggest farm belt in the country.
Nope. The South, traditionally, was much more oriented towards agriculture than the North.
And today, Central California is the most important farm belt in the country.
Michigan, BTW, is not similar to the other states you listed, in that it's heavily forested and only the lower third of the state has extensive farmland. Ohio, too, is not dominated by farmland, with really only the western portion heavily farmland.
The South has been historically more rural and agrarian-based economy than the industrial north. This goes back to even the days of the American Revolution. It held onto slavery and plantation culture the longest, even up to the Civil War. It was also the poorest and most backwards part of the country for most of its history. Hell, it was just recently that the last town to get electricity was in the South.
It has nothing to do with the media or people's ignorance as someone suggested. Southern culture became synonmous with country. They are also the predominate people that originally settled the Plains and Western states. It is ingrained into the subconsciousness of our collective minds because of its historic roots. Just because it may no longer be the case because the South has made strive to urbanize and modernize within the last 20-30 years, doesn't make it go away that quickly.
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