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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from upstate NY, and when I moved to DC twenty years ago I never thought I was moving to the "south."  The south to me is Dixie... the Carolinas, Georgia, etc.  DC to me (even before I moved here) was always the Mid-Atlantic and kind of set apart.  But I always see people on DCUM stating that DC is the south.  It's not the south, geographically or culturally.  And remember, DC was the capital of the Union during the civil war.

Why do you think it's the south, northerners?[/quote]

DC is sandwiched between Virginia (absolutely the south) and Maryland, whose state song calls for Maryland to fight against the Union and refers to Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant and a despot and which spiritually was part of the confederacy even if not in actuality.  Both states are south of the Maxon-Dixon line.

So yes, the south.[/quote]

And yet, it was the capital of the UNION during the Civil War.  Imagine that.  You're negating the very District itself in deference to the states around it... but that's par for the course.

Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45368/is-the-district-of-columbia-in-or-part-of-the/[/quote]

The federal part of DC has [b]always[/b] been different from the actual city surrounding it.

Alexandria was part of DC until Virginia took it back in 1846.  Robert E. Lee's house was just across the river from the White House.  The culture in this area has been southern for most of its history.  Not the deep south, but southern nonetheless.

Also,  Northern cities were built on industry and manufacturing.  DC was a cow town until WWII when the military industry built it up.  There were never any big manufacturing plants here.

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