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[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]

“Many of the earliest Scots-Irish immigrants (of the 1720s and 1730s) first settled in Pennsylvania. Many then moved down from Pennsylvania into Virginia and the Carolinas.”

https://electricscotland.com/history/america/scots_irish.htm

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Lots of German immigrants followed this same path from Pennsylvania.[/quote]

PA was very much a melting pot with Germans being the largest group of settlers in the early years. Quakers were abolitionists so slavery wasn’t commonplace. PA also embraced the industrial revolution and saw many more waves of immigrants (Irish, Italians, etc) in later years and has a much different feel than the south. Far fewer traitors to start.

All parts of the country have their rural areas and corresponding culture. But that’s not “southern”.  
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