Where does Virginia begin to feel ‘Southern’?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anywhere except the NOVA area except for pockets like university towns.

What exactly is NOVA? Prince William is most definitely southern and so is like the southern half of Fairfax County. So if you’re only counting Arlington, Alexandria, and like Mclean and Falls Church as NOVA, then fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fredericksburg

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right across key bridge

Don’t kid yourself

+1

We have a bassackwards, southern-style governor.

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[Anonymous]

Right when I cross from MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

+1

[Anonymous]

Depends where one hails from, OP. In many cases, Virginia becomes "south" at the Mason Dixon line - that is, Delaware.

[Anonymous]

The Occaquan River

[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.

Another southerner here. I’m from Mississippi. Nothing in Virginia feels southern to me until about Richmond. And even that’s a stretch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

+1

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[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.

Another southerner here. I’m from Mississippi. Nothing in Virginia feels southern to me until about Richmond. And even that’s a stretch.

You’re from the deep south. To us northerners this feels like the south.

[Anonymous]

North Carolina

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Another southerner here. I’m from Mississippi. Nothing in Virginia feels southern to me until about Richmond. And even that’s a stretch.

You’re from the deep south. To us northerners this feels like the south.

Exactly. It’s not the “deep south” but it’s southern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Another southerner here. I’m from Mississippi. Nothing in Virginia feels southern to me until about Richmond. And even that’s a stretch.

You’re from the deep south. To us northerners this feels like the south.

NP here. I'm from New England. Nothing even close to the DC area feels like the south. It doesn't start to feel southern until you are close to Richmond.

[Anonymous]

Richmond

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ha ha, I have family in both states and while they’re certainly different flavors of southern, that’s entirely different than the vibe in most of VA north of Richmond where hardly anyone is from a longtime native southern family anymore. Too many transplants, too closely associated with DC suburbs to be “the south” in any meaningful sense. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing btw.