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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL no people did not have southern accents in Fairfax in the 70s/80s! This is a very transitory area thanks to the govt/military.

That being said, Reston Town Center was a field in the 80s!
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Uhh yeah they did.  Something like the Virginia tidewater accent is/was very common with certain white people in the entire region (including Fairfax but not exclusively Fairfax).  Old virginia/old Maryland families.[/quote]

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My family has been in NoVa for several generations and there is absolutely a southern accent among many of us.  [/quote]

PP and I was born in Fx County. I wrote a long post about growing up with true local kids - their families arrived in the Colonial era and operated small farms that dotted the roads. Their parents and grandparents attended Fairfax HS in the 30s-50s. When we moved to a new build in 1980, there was a dirt road behind our house, several abandoned cottages and one house with chickens in the yard.

Yes, these classmates of mine had what you’d think of as a Southern accent - but different from my DC-born grandmother and uncles (they sounded almost like Baltimorians). My dad purposely learned to drop his “working class accent” as a young man.[/quote]

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