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[quote=Anonymous][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]

One of the larger farms was Cobb Farms which is now the subdivision Cobb Estates. Mavis Cobb was a descendant of the original farmer and became the first woman from Fairfax County to become a lawyer and admitted to the Virginia bar.

The Crossman dairy farm, spanned an area in western Arlington into Falls Church.  The family donated the land for Tuckahoe Park and Elementary School and Crossman Church which made a large addition to the church.  A number of the old farm houses are scattered through the area.[/quote]

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