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Old 11-09-2009, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Home is where the heart is
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errr FYI that's just not true.....there is such a thing as the Middleburg Hunt and I happen to know they go hunting three times a week....Middleburg Hunt Home

Looking forward to Christmas at Middleburg where they come parade down Main Street before heading out to their meet.
No kidding--do they acually chase and kill a fox? I thought that had gone out of favor, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, the parade sounds like fun. And maybe these days they just hunt for a prize instead of an animal.
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Old 11-09-2009, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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No kidding--do they acually chase and kill a fox? I thought that had gone out of favor, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, the parade sounds like fun. And maybe these days they just hunt for a prize instead of an animal.

Not sure they kill the fox...but they do still "go to hounds"....
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Old 11-09-2009, 02:26 PM
 
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Drive into West Virginia and check out all the confederate flags. You will see many more there than in western Loudoun. It's rather puzzling since West Virginia left Virginia during the Civil War and joined the union. West Virginia wanted nothing to do with the Confederacy and now they love their confederate flags. Go figure.

Western Loudoun is more southern which seems strange to me since I live as far north as is possible and still be in Virginia, up close to West Virginia and Maryland. Yet people here talk and act more southern than in Nova. Another, go figure. Maybe it's just the country thing vs suburbs.
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Old 11-10-2009, 12:12 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Drive into West Virginia and check out all the confederate flags. You will see many more there than in western Loudoun. It's rather puzzling since West Virginia left Virginia during the Civil War and joined the union. West Virginia wanted nothing to do with the Confederacy and now they love their confederate flags. Go figure.

Western Loudoun is more southern which seems strange to me since I live as far north as is possible and still be in Virginia, up close to West Virginia and Maryland. Yet people here talk and act more southern than in Nova. Another, go figure. Maybe it's just the country thing vs suburbs.
I'm afraid our historians have done an extremely bad job in explaining West Virginia history. Except for the top 16 counties of the northern panhandle area, there was actually a secessionist majority in the rest of West Virginia. The map below shows the counties that voted to secede from the United States in 1861. So if you see a Confederate flag in West Virginia chances are they have a right to fly it if they see fit.

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Old 11-10-2009, 06:44 PM
 
Location: Suburbia
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As a border state, southern sympathies were widespread in Maryland as well.
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Old 11-10-2009, 11:07 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Winchester is definitely "Southern", even if it is further NORTH than most of NoVA. When friends and I were prancing around a farm market out there a few weeks ago (where I scored some cider donuts and pumpkin roll) every other person had a deep Southern drawl. We had lunch at Bob Evans, and all of the people who worked there also had a thick Southern accent. This really amazed me considering I know people from Chambersburg, PA (an hour north of Winchester via I-81) who have NO accent.
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Old 11-17-2009, 10:36 AM
 
Location: West Virginia
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..... This really amazed me considering I know people from Chambersburg, PA (an hour north of Winchester via I-81) who have NO accent.
Yeah, but Chambersburg is on the OTHER side of the Mason-Dixon line!
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Old 11-17-2009, 11:55 AM
 
Location: Panama City FL
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Drive into West Virginia and check out all the confederate flags. You will see many more there than in western Loudoun. It's rather puzzling since West Virginia left Virginia during the Civil War and joined the union. West Virginia wanted nothing to do with the Confederacy and now they love their confederate flags. Go figure.

Western Loudoun is more southern which seems strange to me since I live as far north as is possible and still be in Virginia, up close to West Virginia and Maryland. Yet people here talk and act more southern than in Nova. Another, go figure. Maybe it's just the country thing vs suburbs.

My father's family is from Greenbrier County WV, which is definitely Southern-affiliated. It's really just an extension of VA there. However, the northern areas, like Wheeling, Weirton, etc., are more like PA, and therefore more "Northern". It's weird how that is, but my whole family in WV is more Southern than most people in Norva.

And yes, there are still Southern places in Norva. You just have to look. Whether the recent arrivals (Yankee carpetbaggers lol) in Norva like it or not, ALL of VA is a Southern state. My mom lives in Alexandria and is HUGE into Daughters of the Confederacy, so it's there. But it's mostly the older, native Virginians who keep the southern traditions/memories alive. It's just not obvious South. Like, my mother and I are both native Northern Virginians, have over 30 ancestors that fought for the Confederacy (Stonewall Jackson was shot on our family's farm), and are EXTREMELY proud of our southern heritage, but you wouldn't know it to talk to us since we don't have much of an accent. I think VA is just more refined, genteel southern in general, but there's more to "being Southern" than just accent. It's so many things, but it's just not obvious unless you really know the history. Like, you won't see many Confederate battle flags in Norva, but you do see quite a few of the actual Confederate flags. Little things like that, that people do to let others know without being obvious, that Norva won't forget it's history.
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Old 11-17-2009, 01:42 PM
 
Location: South South Jersey
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Hey, I'm about to move into a NoVA neighborhood named after a Confederate hero.. whee. Seriously, though, I practically grew up in Missouri, in a town that was culturally very Southern (and where you'd see lots and lots of Confederate flags, hear, for instance, a particular local referred to as "the Mouth of the South," see people making hominy on their front porches, hear mostly (Upland-) Southern vowels, get to watch clogging competitions, etc. (In short, the ancestors of most of the residents were originally from [well, not originally from.. that'd mostly be Northern Ireland] Kentucky, western [now West] Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.) So I'm sort of a semi-Southerner. Only problem is, I have this nasal Northern accent. *sigh*
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Old 11-17-2009, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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How about Remington?
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