Since this is so fun.
I generally agree with violetpretty regarding the different influences and that it is also generational.
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Educational performance
Low teen pregnancy rate
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These are interesting northern qualifiers when you consider what education and teenage pregnancy are correlated with.
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fast pace of life
lots of transplants
lots of immigrants
diversity
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These things would make a number of southern cities "northern."
When people moved from NY, and other parts of the north, to VA and other parts of the south decades ago, they brought population shifts and cultural influences with them. Examples include when D.C., Charlotte, and ATL became "Chocolate Cities" in the 80s and 90s. That didn't make these southern areas nonsouthern nor did it make them "kinda northern." It made them southern cities that were influenced by transplants.
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We don't a southern accent
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In my opinion, there isn't
A southern accent. I think it depends on the area of the south and what people consider to be a southern accent. There are accents that are (stereo)typically southern, just as there are (stereo)typical northern accents that not all people born and raised in the north have.
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Baltimore
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What about Baltimore? LOL.