Is Baltimore and DC culturally part the South or Northeast?

[badtguy]

people in here using "bama" as slang that people use in the DMV in 2017, have no been to the DMV in a decade

Lol lmfao.

 

[Optimus Prime]

DC has Bojangles so its the South

 

[Sensei]

You sound my nikka.

Care to expound on what the fukk you mean?

 

[BmoreGorilla]

DC has Bojangles so its the South

So does southern MD

 

[How Sway?]

I agree. I was just in Chicago for the past few days and I noticed certain words sounded like DC. Chicago and DC have noticeable southern twangs, but you can't tell that people there migrated from different parts of the south.

dc nikkas have more of a drawl when they talk though. I can barely understand them half the time.

 

[Spatial Paradox]

Brehs from NYC have called us in Upstate NY (Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo) country

This reminds me of someone I met while out in Pittsburgh last summer. He’s from Syracuse, and when he asked where I was from and I told him, he started clowning his baby mom’s (who’s from Pittsburgh) on how she sounds and how much slower it is out there compared to NY.

I’m just thinking to myself “but y’all both sound the same breh. I thought you were from here like her “

I wouldn’t say y’all sound “country”, but if he was representative of how a black person from upstate NY sounds, y’all definitely have a somewhat different accent.

 

[315]

This reminds me of someone I met while out in Pittsburgh last summer. He’s from Syracuse, and when he asked where I was from and I told him, he started clowning his baby mom’s (who’s from Pittsburgh) on how she sounds and how much slower it is out there compared to NY.

I’m just thinking to myself “but y’all both sound the same breh. I thought you were from here like her “

I wouldn’t say y’all sound “country”, but if he was representative of how a black person from upstate NY sounds, y’all definitely have a somewhat different accent.

Yea I always thought we had a kinda neutral accent but the southern roots are strong here. Like my mom and her siblings were the first born up here.
First time I heard someone say we sounded country it was like The more I thought about it we do say some bama shyt

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

DC is southern to me. Been here for almost 10 years now. DC was like Atlanta to me when I first moved from there to here.

PG County ain't northern to me at all either.

Bmore is when it gets NE to me.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Having been to DC many times it feels like a Northern city to me. Even though it's below the mason-dixon, it never felt Southern to me. I know some folks who feel DC feels Southern, and i don't see it. Rowhomes, high population density, pedestrian friendly neighborhoods, great public transit. All those factors make DC seem Northern to me.

Samething when i visited Baltimore. Felt like Philly to me. Samething when I visited Wilmington DE. Wilmington felt like Philly and Bmore to me. The whole DelMarVa peninsula felt somewhat Northern to me. Except VA. The WHOLE VA feels Southern to me. From Petersburg up to the VA/DC boarder.

Great public transportation? WMATA is garbage

 

[newworldafro]

DC has Bojangles so its the South

Damn good ass comeback for TeamSouth in this thread...

Maryland has a few too. I visited all of them when I lived in DC and Bmore for 5-6 years combined........fair point....

Yes, historically it was below the Mason Dixon line, but Maryland was never in the Confederacy, and Lincoln sent troops to Annapolis to make sure, cause he didn't want DC o be surrounded by the Confederacy. (I literally just saw or heard this information a few days ago.)

So DC and Bmore being Southern culturally/historically is a gumbo stew of fukkerry. In 2017, it has elements of the South, and is its own Mid-Atlantic sub-region, but regionally it is the Northeast corridor.

 

[Spatial Paradox]

Yea I always thought we had a kinda neutral accent but the southern roots are strong here. Like my mom and her siblings were the first born up here.
First time I heard someone say we sounded country it was like The more I thought about it we do say some bama shyt

It’s easy to ignore your own accent when everyone you interact with on a regular basis has the same accent. It’s easier for people with different accents to pick up on your accent, even when the differences are small (and vice versa)

I had a reaction the first time I was told I sound country. But when I started actually paying attention to the way my fam talks, I could hear it

 

[Spade]

Great public transportation? WMATA is garbage

But it's better than every transit system in the South and has the second highest train ridership in the country.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

But it's better than every transit system in the South and has the second highest train ridership in the country.

America just sucks when it comes to PT

Thank the car industry for making sure of that (so we all have to own cars to get around).


I read an article a few weeks ago about how WMATA is a laughing joke internationally about what NOT to do when it comes to keeping up public transportation maintenance and funding.

And people use it here because traffic sucks even more.

 

[KodeBlue]

Philly has Church's Chicken, so that makes then southern too.

Pennsylvania has a Bojangles too.

 

[Prince Mongo]

Great public transportation? WMATA is garbage

Compare to most southern cities, y'all have it made with public transit. If I lived up there, I wouldn't drive deadass