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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I don't know enough about southern PG County to opine on that. But the core of PG County is (culturally) no different than any other middle class black neighborhood or suburb in a major metro (Hyde Park, Ladera Heights, CA, Southfield, MI, etc.).
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I would again disagree, in that there are certainly cultural nuances in PG County that skew much more Southern.
And the main structural and scope difference in the comparison you make is that Prince George's County is not a neighborhood or suburb... but the largest and one of the few black majority
counties in the nation -- and the only one in the northern US (Baltimore City is also, but not really a county). Much of PG County is rural in character.
Rural and black is a major outlier in the northern US, and thus it is very different from a black neighborhood or suburb elsewhere outside of the South in the US.
Much of the area was dominated by slave labor tobacco plantations. There is long-standing culture in the area tied back to that... just like in the South.