Does PG county come off as southern to you? (Baltimore: big house, camp)

[Mahatma X]

IDK why but much of PG county comes off as southern to me. Largo, Upper Marlboro, Clinton, Brandywine, FT. Washington, Oxon Hill, Glassmanor, Accokeek, Camp Springs, Suitland, and pretty much everything south of Riverdale feels kinda country to me. Maybe its because of the large black population and black people in PG county like the whole big house, big car type thing like they do down south. Compared Baltimore, and even MoCo its just really different.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by Mahatma X

IDK why but much of PG county comes off as southern to me. Largo, Upper Marlboro, Clinton, Brandywine, FT. Washington, Oxon Hill, Glassmanor, Accokeek, Camp Springs, Suitland, and pretty much everything south of Riverdale feels kinda country to me. Maybe its because of the large black population and black people in PG county like the whole big house, big car type thing like they do down south. Compared Baltimore, and even MoCo its just really different.

Huh?

[UrbanScholar]

Technically this whole area is southern since it is below the mason-dixon line.That said, IMO, the entire area (DC/MD/VA) has a southern vibe to it.

[North Beach Person]

Prince George's, especially the southern tier, is sometimes grouped with Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's as part of Southern MD. Southern Anne Arundel is, too.

Sometimes the politics is plantation like, asking a State Senator to deal with a pothole, for example.

[HurricaneDC]

Some of those communities you listed don't seem that Southern to me. Largo seems like pretty standard suburbia to me.

Fort Washington seems a bit more country for sure. Clinton does as well. I haven't been to Brandywine or Upper Marlboro except for going down Route 4.

Overall it doesn't seem too Southern to me. I only really get that vibe in some parts of Calvert and most of St. Mary's.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by Mahatma X

IDK why but much of PG county comes off as southern to me. Largo, Upper Marlboro, Clinton, Brandywine, FT. Washington, Oxon Hill, Glassmanor, Accokeek, Camp Springs, Suitland, and pretty much everything south of Riverdale feels kinda country to me.

I'm discounting the second part of your post because I'm not sure what the heck you were trying to convey. Also, I'm not sure where you're going with the entire post. A few people already posted responses. But I'm not sure I fully understand what your post is getting at. The places you listed as "southern" can be pulled out of just about any county in the DC-Baltimore area. Do you mean rural? Large tracts of land? These can be found in every county. All counties get pretty rural the further away from the Beltway you get.

Have you traveled 29 out in Silver Spring toward Howard County? Or 270 up toward Fredrick, MD? Or how about past Tysons and Reston toward Ashburn and Leesburg? Or travel up Georgetown Pike from the Beltway toward Sterling. Same feel.

[justtitans]

Absolutely not. Not even close. If you told this to someone from the south, they would laugh at you. Please let's not confuse rural with southern. The mentality of the people and the culture in PG overall is not anywhere close to being southern.

[David_J]

The southern 50 to 60% of the county (in terms of geography) does have a rather Southern vibe. The upper half of the county is Northern in feel, though, and that's where most people in the county live anyway.

[Khemistry]

Originally Posted by pgtvatitans

Absolutely not. Not even close. If you told this to someone from the south, they would laugh at you. Please let's not confuse rural with southern. The mentality of the people and the culture in PG overall is not anywhere close to being southern.

Originally Posted by David_J

The southern 50 to 60% of the county (in terms of geography) does have a rather Southern vibe. The upper half of the county is Northern in feel, though, and that's where most people in the county live anyway.

I tend to agree with these statements. There's nothing "southern," overall, about Prince George's County, especially to the poster that claimed the ENTIRE Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan Area, had a southern feel to it. No southerner and/or person with southern experience, would take that seriously. I know southern and country. I have lots of family from South Carolina, and I have been to North Carolina many times, as well as Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. There is absolutely nothing about this area—as a whole—that gives me the impression the people have a southern vibe to them. Now, if we're talking about geographical areas, then there are places in southern Prince George's on down that have a southern (or rural feel), but that's about it. Suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia give me nothing but "progressive northeast" to me.

[armory]

If we are trying to put "southern" into the context of being in the shadow of the Nation's capitol, no, not at all. The general attitude of people is different the further away from DC you go but not southern.
NC, SC, GA, FLA, LA, TX, SOVA(coined a new term), TN, AR, MS, AL and all of the other down under states I have visited numerous times are genuinely southern. This area is basically just an extension of NYC, NJ, Philly and DE - all as Yankee north as you want to be. Accents may sound southern here because of the influx of people from the south but in reality, no.