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Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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In your opinion, what exactly defines a person as being "country" or being from "the country?"
I highly doubt it means the same to other communities, but as an African American, It seems like any place that's not a major metropolitan area with millions of people is called "country"
People I know from places like Philly, NYC, Chicago, Detroit call places Columbia, SC or Chattanooga, TN "country"
At times, they may even refer to Atlanta or Charlotte as "country" and that just makes no sense to me
In your opinion, what exactly defines a person as being "country" or being from "the country?"
I highly doubt it means the same to other communities, but as an African American, It seems like any place that's not a major metropolitan area with millions of people is called "country"
People I know from places like Philly, NYC, Chicago, Detroit call places Columbia, SC or Chattanooga, TN "country"
At times, they may even refer to Atlanta or Charlotte as "country" and that just makes no sense to me
I hate this. People will call New Orleans country. It drives me insane.
Being country and from the country aren't the same things. I dated a girl from Sterling, CO, country as hell but she wasn't country at all. I have family from Hollandale, MS and those Myers are COUNTRY. It depends on the personality.
To me “country” means someone without curiosity about things not in their immediate world, often poor or lower middle—class, and someone who acts like “they’ve never been anywhere” — whether they have or not. It’s often invokes for Black people, the uneducated rural South. But I’ve met “country” Negros in Chicago or New York, and folks as worldly and aware as anyone in Winston-Salem or Atlanta or Memphis. I’ve also come to see that being “country” has nothing to do with dress or accent or mannerisms. Those things are surface, but being “country” runs bone deep.
Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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Those places are country, especially Columbia and Chattanooga, if you're looking from that perspective.
Well, you see that's what confuses me. Columbia and Chattanooga have 100,000+ people and metro areas of several hundred thousands. If those places are the "country" then what are towns with with 500-5,000 people? There's a big difference between Chattanooga and Columbia and actual rural towns that only have 1 high school and maybe a Walmart.
Well, you see that's what confuses me. Columbia and Chattanooga have 100,000+ people and metro areas of several hundred thousands. If those places are the "country" then what are towns with with 500-5,000 people? There's a big difference between Chattanooga and Columbia and actual rural towns that only have 1 high school and maybe a Walmart.
You live in Sandy Springs, GA and cannot answer the question?
Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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You live in Sandy Springs, GA and cannot answer the question?
I just don't see how people can put some place like Greensboro, NC or Winston-Salem, NC into the same category as Yanceyville, NC under the broad generalization as being "country towns"
Even growing up in Middle Georgia, I know people from actual rural places like Telfair County, Sparta, Warren County, Dooly County, Talbot County, etc. that considered going to Macon, Columbus or Augusta as going to the city or calling us "city folks"....so I guess it's just subjective.
Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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To me “country” means someone without curiosity about things not in their immediate world, often poor or lower middle—class, and someone who acts like “they’ve never been anywhere” — whether they have or not. It’s often invokes for Black people, the uneducated rural South. But I’ve met “country” Negros in Chicago or New York, and folks as worldly and aware as anyone in Winston-Salem or Atlanta or Memphis. I’ve also come to see that being “country” has nothing to do with dress or accent or mannerisms. Those things are surface, but being “country” runs bone deep.
That's a good way to put it. I know people here in Georgia, from Atlanta, Decatur, etc love to call Savannah, Macon, Augusta, and Columbus "country"
To hear them speak of it, you'd think they were from Brooklyn and those towns are Cochran, GA.
Mind you, many of these are people with strong southern accents themselves, have barely been outside of 285, and feel uncomfortable and out of place at any spot that requires a dress code or doesn't play "Trap Music"
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