Where does Virginia begin to feel ‘Southern’?

[Anonymous]

As a person from the actual south (Georgia)- not until Staunton/Roanoke/ south of Richmond. The people who say western Loudoun past Leesburg are wrong, that’s just rural. Charlottesville is a major college town. It isn’t southern, its identity is UVA. Nowhere within 50 miles of here for sure. Woodbridge isn’t “the south,” it’s just not suburban nova. And confederate flags aren’t the metric, those fly in every state because every state has racists.

[Anonymous]

Having lived in DC, Arlington, and southern Virginia, I'd say anything south of the James River feels like the

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having lived in DC, Arlington, and southern Virginia, I'd say anything south of the James River feels like the

feels like the South. Anything north of that has some metro DC influence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a person from the actual south (Georgia)- not until Staunton/Roanoke/ south of Richmond. The people who say western Loudoun past Leesburg are wrong, that’s just rural. Charlottesville is a major college town. It isn’t southern, its identity is UVA. Nowhere within 50 miles of here for sure. Woodbridge isn’t “the south,” it’s just not suburban nova. And confederate flags aren’t the metric, those fly in every state because every state has racists.

No, you're from the Deep South. Virginia has always been Upper South. There is no such thing as "the actual south."

[Anonymous]

DC native, and I think Williamsburg is when it starts to feel not DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a person from the actual south (Georgia)- not until Staunton/Roanoke/ south of Richmond. The people who say western Loudoun past Leesburg are wrong, that’s just rural. Charlottesville is a major college town. It isn’t southern, its identity is UVA. Nowhere within 50 miles of here for sure. Woodbridge isn’t “the south,” it’s just not suburban nova. And confederate flags aren’t the metric, those fly in every state because every state has racists.

No, you're from the Deep South. Virginia has always been Upper South. There is no such thing as "the actual south."

+1 Two completely different things. You won’t feel Georgian south even in North Carolina.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having lived in DC, Arlington, and southern Virginia, I'd say anything south of the James River feels like the

feels like the South. Anything north of that has some metro DC influence.

metro DC doesn’t necessarily mean ‘northern’. I remember when DC proper felt southern in the 80s. Even MoCo and Ffx are two different realms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a person from the actual south (Georgia)- not until Staunton/Roanoke/ south of Richmond. The people who say western Loudoun past Leesburg are wrong, that’s just rural. Charlottesville is a major college town. It isn’t southern, its identity is UVA. Nowhere within 50 miles of here for sure. Woodbridge isn’t “the south,” it’s just not suburban nova. And confederate flags aren’t the metric, those fly in every state because every state has racists.

Charlottesville is most certainly the Upper South. At every Mcdonald’s drive thru I hear a southern accent, and besides the city itself isn’t too big. It still has swaths of rural southern influence.

[Anonymous]

Anywhere except the NOVA area except for pockets like university towns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South of Fairfax (Fairfax Station/Clifton)

This.

- a POC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anywhere.

Signed,

Moco native living in Fairfax County

+1

I was born and raised in Alabama, lived in Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, nyc, Atlanta, dc and Arlington as an adult. The entirety of Virginia feels southern to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right across key bridge

Don’t kid yourself

+1. Black DC Native

Although Western and Southern VA get Deeper Southern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The saying in Charlottesville is people from the South think they are up North. People from up North think they are in the South.

Please pretend I didn’t capitalize those.

This. It’s like Episcopalians. Not really Protestant. But not quite Catholic either.

[Anonymous]

The whole state is the "South" and there's just varying degrees of feeling that.

DC is also a Southern territory.

/NY been in DC proper 30 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having lived in DC, Arlington, and southern Virginia, I'd say anything south of the James River feels like the

feels like the South. Anything north of that has some metro DC influence.

metro DC doesn’t necessarily mean ‘northern’. I remember when DC proper felt southern in the 80s. Even MoCo and Ffx are two different realms.

True. I remember when tobacco farms were not all that far from Downtown. I’m also the third generation of my family to live in DC, and many of the parents of friends that I grew up with were from Deeper Southern states. The DC that I grew up in was much more Southern than it is now. And Northern Virginia was even more Southern then as well. Frighteningly so in some ways.