Hopeful 2011 SEC PNM from "The North"

[DrPhil]

Since this is so fun. I generally agree with violetpretty regarding the different influences and that it is also generational.

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Educational performance
Low teen pregnancy rate

These are interesting northern qualifiers when you consider what education and teenage pregnancy are correlated with.

Originally Posted by violetpretty

fast pace of life
lots of transplants
lots of immigrants
diversity

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.

Originally Posted by violetpretty

We don't a southern accent

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.

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Baltimore

What about Baltimore? LOL.