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Maryland has a number of accents, and you likely won't hear a Southern one since it's spoken by a tiny minority of residents on the Eastern Shore. Virginia is 90% Southern, including the accents. DC afaik has no recognizable accent (neither does its immediate suburbs in MD or VA).
WHAT?! DC has a very very unique accent. Especially with the way the letter R is pronounced. They have so many different words. Now the thing is that white DC natives don't have this accent just black folks but to say there is no accent at all especially in the Maryland suburbs is false. Some black folks on the VA side have this accent too by the way.
Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Delaware are the four places that are usually questioned on being the North or the South. It should be quite evident that neither of these states can really belong to either.
Some of you say that Virginia is not culturally the same as the North, but down here in the South many people laugh at the idea of VA being considered one of us.
They don't have to be one or the other...they're Mid-Atlantic. As they are in the middle.
Northern VA is not the south, but Richmond certainly is.
I agree, and when you start going south and west of that area VA feels unquestionably southern with the exception of tidewater which is a military area. I grew up in southside va (southcentral) and knew many people who lived in the area from the Carolinas and Alabama, Tennessee, who said that the area was southern in every way. Now in tidewater I hear different responses from folk from the deep south about how southern the area is not.
Well many southerners don't agree with that. And who knows the South better than a southerner?
And like I said, if south VA was definitely the South, then there wouldn't be so much disagreement about it.
I like to think I"m a southerner (originally from GA) and I would say that south VA is the south. The thing about Virginia is that its not all southern. Here in northern VA I definitely know I'm not in the south anymore. Going back to accents there are a few older folks over 40 from northern VA who have slight very very slight southern accents. Now the tidewater area is different I've met a few younger folks from the area and none of them had anything close to an accent. So Virginia is an odd state because it can't be classified into one region or the other. It isn't all northern, it isn't all southern either. Richmond is definitely the south while here in northern VA I know I'm up north. I remember when I moved up here and a friend/ex kept sending me texts calling me a yankee.
Like I've said before. Richmond is where the transition begins. Once you hit DC, it's almost gone. DC people don't act or talk like anyone in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston,etc
You tell DC people they are southern, they'll laugh at you. You tell them they are northern, they'll laugh at you. They will admit they are influenced by NYC though.
Like I've said before. Richmond is where the transition begins. Once you hit DC, it's almost gone. DC people don't act or talk like anyone in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston,etc
You tell DC people they are southern, they'll laugh at you. You tell them they are northern, they'll laugh at you. They don't consider themselves anything, but will admit they are influenced by NYC.
Yeah I can roll with that. They're always saying Mid-Atlantic on the news.
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They're always saying Mid-Atlantic on the news.
