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Originally Posted by blondieee3
It's actually pretty crazy that within the same state, you can go from big city "yankee" life, to tiny little farms with confederate flags.
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The presence of absence of Confederate flags (itself a misnomer) is what defines an area as Southern?
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Originally Posted by SthrnZeta
Sorry, ask anyone who's actually from NoVa and they would never say they are southerners. That area is such a modge podge of people, it just can't be called southern. Now, pass over the beltway into Prince William County and beyond, and then maybe I'd believe you.
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I know plenty of people from NoVA who readily say they are Southerners, and with good reason because they are. I'm even related to some of them. I know also know plenty of people who live there but are not from there (to use a good old Southernism), who rightly say
they are not Southern.
NoVA is Southern, the presence of an at times overwhelming number of non-Southerners living there notwithstanding. And I'd say that whenever a Southerner says NoVA (or Florida) isn't really Southern, that's what they mean -- that "too many" of the people living there aren't Southern.