Where does Virginia begin to feel ‘Southern’?

[Anonymous]

While attending law school at Georgetown and living on Capitol Hill, my roommate and I decided to get a real Xmas tree and stopped into a lot in Alexandria. We picked a tree and approached some men standing and chatting in the lot about getting the tree; one of them called over to a black man nearby and said ‘hey, BOY - take care of these ladies.’

That seemed pretty southern to me, in 1999.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While attending law school at Georgetown and living on Capitol Hill, my roommate and I decided to get a real Xmas tree and stopped into a lot in Alexandria. We picked a tree and approached some men standing and chatting in the lot about getting the tree; one of them called over to a black man nearby and said ‘hey, BOY - take care of these ladies.’

That seemed pretty southern to me, in 1999.

Yeeeeah, that didn't happen.

[Anonymous]

I remember when Virginia would celebrate River e Lee Day, Alexandria would prominently display several southern flags throughout the city. The correct answer is across the Potomac River.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where there are restaurants with sweet tea, pimiento cheese and ham biscuits on the menu. Where Duke’s mayonnaise outsells Hellman’s. Probably Fredericksburg?

Agree on the sweet tea and Duke’s!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While attending law school at Georgetown and living on Capitol Hill, my roommate and I decided to get a real Xmas tree and stopped into a lot in Alexandria. We picked a tree and approached some men standing and chatting in the lot about getting the tree; one of them called over to a black man nearby and said ‘hey, BOY - take care of these ladies.’

That seemed pretty southern to me, in 1999.

Yeeeeah, that didn't happen.

You haven’t lived in the south for long enough, young padawan

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Every time I see people saying the south is so much more racist than the north, I think of that Nice White Parents podcast where they talk about the fact that people in NYC always say the south is so racist and they're so much more progressive yet their schools are more segregated than anywhere else in the entire country.

because it's about $$ not about skin color. I'm a nonwhite person who lived in a very white, rich area. I noticed how non diverse that area was given that I grew up in an area where white people were the minority.

Wealthy areas that have very little diversity are that way due to wealth and SES, not because of racism.

Ummm...and why do the white people in those areas have wealth and a higher SES that allows them to segregate themselves?

Thank you!

P PP, you identify yourself as a nonwhite person. I’m sure you are aware that not all “nonwhite” people have similar histories or similar experiences. I’ll stop there and let you pondering that a bit.

um yea, but you realize that *today* they are not segregating themselves because of race but because of SES.

Also, I grew up lower income.

No, I don’t realize that. Do you have even a historically realistic argument to support your assertion? Your personal income isn’t really relevant, except as one tiny data point. Talking about POC as though this is some homogeneous group with socially and historically similar treatment and opportunities isn’t accurate or useful. But nice that you seem to have managed to avoid experiencing racism in ways that impacted you economically, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Prince William county. The confederate flags start showing up on trucks around Woodbridge.

This is the answer.

Oh puhleeze. YOu guys are ridiculous And I live in Charlottesville! The answer is somewhere below here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While attending law school at Georgetown and living on Capitol Hill, my roommate and I decided to get a real Xmas tree and stopped into a lot in Alexandria. We picked a tree and approached some men standing and chatting in the lot about getting the tree; one of them called over to a black man nearby and said ‘hey, BOY - take care of these ladies.’

That seemed pretty southern to me, in 1999.

Yeeeeah, that didn't happen.

You haven’t lived in the south for long enough, young padawan

I've been in Alexandria since 1978.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While attending law school at Georgetown and living on Capitol Hill, my roommate and I decided to get a real Xmas tree and stopped into a lot in Alexandria. We picked a tree and approached some men standing and chatting in the lot about getting the tree; one of them called over to a black man nearby and said ‘hey, BOY - take care of these ladies.’

That seemed pretty southern to me, in 1999.

Yeeeeah, that didn't happen.

You haven’t lived in the south for long enough, young padawan

I've been in Alexandria since 1978.

^^ the person who yelled it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While attending law school at Georgetown and living on Capitol Hill, my roommate and I decided to get a real Xmas tree and stopped into a lot in Alexandria. We picked a tree and approached some men standing and chatting in the lot about getting the tree; one of them called over to a black man nearby and said ‘hey, BOY - take care of these ladies.’

That seemed pretty southern to me, in 1999.

Yeeeeah, that didn't happen.

You haven’t lived in the south for long enough, young padawan

I've been in Alexandria since 1978.

And you’re telling me that people in Northern Virginia didn’t have southern accents? Please

[Anonymous]

Virginia as we all know like or not is Part of the south and yes Virginia Does feel southern. Where the “real Virginia actually starts is anything south of Fredricksburg, South Of prince William county, What’s funny about Virginia is that almost everything that represents the south comes from Virginia, sweet tea, Southern style BbQ has its origins in Virginia, Famous southern icons were born in Virginia. Let’s not forget the battle flag of the confederacy is actually the battle flag of Northern Virginia origins comes straight out of Fairfax, But yes Virginia is a southern state NoVa may not feel southern But it is just listen to there locals when they talk they don’t have a southern Drawl but a slight southern Accent, and yes Central Virginia still grows a lot of Tobacco , Southeastern Virginia Still grows a lot of cotton, western Virginia is Appalacha, we may not be backwoods. Just cause Virginia is not rual as the deep don’t mean it ain’t southern, even during civil war times Virginia was always more advanced then the rest of the south.

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Anonymous wrote:People with southern accents are so stupid.

Donald Trump sounds so intelligent with his New York accent.

People with a thick accent - of any variety - are perceived as less educated.

JFK?

[Anonymous]

shores of the Potomac

[Anonymous]

Fairfax absolutely was Southern (and had Southern accents) into the 1980s. When my husband went to Fairfax High School in the late 80s, it was still the Rebels and the mascot was "Johnny Reb." He said that there was a group of 4H-type country kids that they called the "hats" because of the way they wore their baseball hats on their heads. There was a specific Southern accent that you can still hear in some of the older residents of Fairfax City. Truro Church and Fairfax UMC for a long time still had some of the bow ties-and-seersucker crowd.

Now? Maybe Fredericksburg?

[Anonymous]

When you cross the Rappahannock.