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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be a lot of confusion here between what is rural and what is Southern.[/quote]

Rural Virginia= Southern , if it’s rural, that means it retained its original settlers without much influence from transplants or urbanization. All of Virginia is historically southern, unless there has been mass urbanization or migrants flocking there. I graduated from Loudoun County High School in Leesburg, and some of the kids and teachers there had southern accents. When I went to DC’s teacher parent meeting, the teacher there had a southern accent, as did the parents. In Leesburg (northern towards Lucketts), right next to the Potomax River, where it is still relatively rural and untouched. [/quote]

There’s really not difference between rural Virginia and rural Pennsylvania.[/quote]

The people who settled there are different. The people who live in rural Pennsylvania are desecendents of Quakers, whereas the people who live in rural Virginia settled for the fertile land. The people who live in rural Virtinia were likely slave owners centuries ago who came from the English Isles, where as Pennsylvania rurals have roots from all over Europe. [/quote]

You have little understanding of how this country was settled or the waves of immigration.  I suggest you stop by the Frontier Museum in Staunton to help you better understand.

As a Hoosier from southern Indiana, I can attest that were I grew up, clearly not the geographical south, is much more southern in culture than Northern Virginia.  The southern part of Indiana was settled primarily by people from KY and TN.  The culture and accent in northern Indiana is very different from southern Indiana and reflects the people from the upper midwest/Great Lakes who settled it.  &quot;Southern&quot; is not just a geographic location.

https://www.frontiermuseum.org/[/quote]

PP was making accurate statements about settlers in PA. Nothing about IN. [/quote]

The PP is making wildly inaccurate claims. Germans made up the largest group of PA settlers. Virginia had a large enslaved population but most white Virginians did not own slaves, especially in the western parts of the state.

I believe the point the Indiana poster was trying to make was in response to the 3rd PP who said there was little difference between rural VA and rural PA. Rural southern IN is similar to them as well. I would agree. They were settled by the same groups and if you think of &quot;southern&quot; as cultural, not geographical. Indiana also used to be a major KKK stronghold. Sounds pretty &quot;southern&quot; to me.

http://www.virginiaplaces.org/population/slavery.html
https://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-23#:~:text=Though%20officially%20English%20in%20its,)%2C%20and%20other%20European%20groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Klan[/quote]

Racist/redneck/rural &lt;&gt; southern.

Where did most of the people who were ok with slavery settle? The south. 
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Your ignorance is on full display.[/quote]

Sorry. Truth hurts. The south fully embraced slavery. They liked it so much that they were willing to kill 600k+ people to keep it.

There are rural, racist rednecks all over the US. They aren’t all southern. 
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