Posted Dec 23, 2020, 6:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Greenville, SC - "Birthplace of the light switch rave"
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Originally Posted by bossabreezes
Even sillier is to think that places are static and can never change based off of their history from hundreds of years ago. You know, cause Constantinople is still a devoutly catholic city to this day..
If you ask any Miami native, they will tell you Miami is not a Southern city. Likely the same will happen if you ask someone the same question in Alexandria, VA.
Richmond is another story, but that could change soon as the demography of Virginia changes.
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Demography can change all it wants, but geography cannot and will not. Geography and history dictate where a place is. How it feels is irrelevant. Going by how a place feels, we can therefore declare that Huntsville is not in Alabama because of the presence of NASA, and that the Research Triangle Park is not in North Carolina because Andy and Opie never stroll through en route to the fishing pond.
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