Is Virginia the South?

[Romell]

NoVA is more nothern leaning, but once you leave that immediate area you're in the South

 

[Zero]

NoVA

 

[Noriega]

Anything past Delaware is the south. Including some parts of Pennsylvania.

Country fukks.

I consider parts of southern IL, southern Indy and Missouri to be south

@Buckeye Fever includes you

One of my boys said Pennsylvania is Midwest and Kentucky isn’t the south

 

[Da King]

Only people in VA will tell you it's not the south, same with DC people

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I consider parts of southern IL, southern Indy and Missouri to be south

@Buckeye Fever includes you

One of my boys said Pennsylvania is Midwest and Kentucky isn’t the south

When family comes down here from Chicago, they be like "yall country!"

 

[invalid]

VA is the South. DC is the South. And Maryland is technically the South but I'll give it mid-Atlantic.

 

[Tiffrock]

Virginia is def the south- Richmond was the capitol of the Confederacy

 

[010101]

it's in the twilight zone*

 

[Spade]

VA is the South. DC is the South. And Maryland is technically the South but I'll give it mid-Atlantic.

Historically you are right regarding DC and VA. But now, DC and MD pretty much aligns themselves with the NE. I say it's a mix and that's where "mid-atlantic" comes in.

To me, being from Texas, I always thought VA was pretty much like a hybrid but more leaning towards the Northeast. But when I moved to the area and visited areas South of Woodbridge, I came to the conclusion that most of VA is just as Southern as other Southern states. VA has just as much in common with North Carolina as it does with Maryland and way more in common (outside NOVA) with South Carolina than it does with Pennsylvania.

DC though looks like a city from the Northeast. It doesn't look or feel like any city in the South.

 

[Will Ross]

I've lived in NY and VA (and states in between for a few yrs), Northern VA - totallllly different environment from Southern VA (anything south of Dumfries, VA is southern af).. Northern VA is not southern at all. Has a more More suburb-metro area vibe. Northern va is about 45 mins from DC and 1 hr. from Baltimore; and its about 4 hrs. from Hampton, Tidewater areas. There was this movement to have Northern VA secede into Maryland at one point. Anything beginning in Richmond is definitely the South and the Hampton/Norfolk tidewater area is definite south/country. I would say VA is about 20% north, the rest is the south.

Northern VA has a lot of transplants (people moving from NY, NJ, CA. Texas, other states etc, relocated or moved for career opportunites, govt jobs, military bc it's so close to DC so rarely will you find people that are born and raised in No.VA. whereas the southern parts of VA, there is less diversity, established southern roots, generational family situations, southern dialect.. etc.)

NOVA is not really that more diverse they just have way less blacks.

 

[LoMax30]

All of VA, Roanoke to Hampton Roads to Richmond to Arlington, all the south.

This goes for you too DC People from DC telling me they're from "the north" and when they open their mouth it's "ayyy yuuung, we gon to the curry out in Murrrland." Did you mean the CARRY OUT in MARYLAND?

 

[invalid]

Historically you are right regarding DC and VA. But now, DC and MD pretty much aligns themselves with the NE. I say it's a mix and that's where "mid-atlantic" comes in.

To me, being from Texas, I always thought VA was pretty much like a hybrid but more leaning towards the Northeast. But when I moved to the area and visited areas South of Woodbridge, I came to the conclusion that most of VA is just as Southern as other Southern states. VA has just as much in common with North Carolina as it does with Maryland and way more in common (outside NOVA) with South Carolina than it does with Pennsylvania.

DC though looks like a city from the Northeast. It doesn't look or feel like any city in the South.

I'm not even sure what this means. I measure everything in the South against the Tidewater region of VA because historically, that was the locus of all things Southern. Add in Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans as coastal port cities - DC is not too dissimilar from them sans the fact that it's the nation's capital and will be a bit more cosmopolitan. Texas is a bit different because it's not very coastal but when you look at the South as being coastal and or river centric, you start to notice the similarities of the port cities or river-cities and see the similarities, because it was from these places that the "culture" of the South was birthed and then spread inward.

And to be clear, I definitely recognize a difference between the coastal areas of the Southern states and the more inland cities. But when I think of the South, I think about more of the coastal regions.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

NOVA is not really that more diverse they just have way less blacks.

If you're talking about Fairfax, Arlington, Loundon.. then I agree, mostly white, very little diversity.

But in my area, def. not way less blacks, it's more diverse than that. way less blacks to me would mean like 5% or less (in that case, I wouldn't be living there anyway).
White Non-Hispanic Alone (43.7%)

• Hispanic or Latino (22.9%)

• Black Non-Hispanic Alone (19.9%)

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Virginia is def the south- Richmond was the capitol of the Confederacy

VA has too many racist street and town names - Lynchburg, Jefferson Davis Highway, Blacks Run, Negro Head Rock....,

 

[Tiffrock]

All of VA, Roanoke to Hampton Roads to Richmond to Arlington, all the south.

This goes for you too DC People from DC telling me they're from "the north" and when they open their mouth it's "ayyy yuuung, we gon to the curry out in Murrrland." Did you mean the CARRY OUT in MARYLAND?

Ha ha that accent