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Originally Posted by JManc
Out of the Bos-Was corridor, DC still feels southern. From the swamp ass in the summers to the food. It's just no longer traditional south given its status as nation's capital.
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DC feels mid-atlantic to me, the swamp summers (and even a few cold hearty palms) arent a primary southern signifier to me considering st. louis is south of DC and is hotter in the summer. i mean the record high temperature in DC is 10
degrees cooler than st. louis. it doesn't really get THAT hot.
the high quality brick construction, the rows, the historically large african american population - all feel mid-atlantic - the lower midwest cities feel like echos of the lower mid-atlantic excepting kansas city and indy if you count that.
atlanta is the capital of the southEAST. fixed. the south is too wide and varied and sub-regions have their own capitals. atlanta WAS a chicago-like hub until the “western south” many hundred of miles away with different trade connections boomed. atlanta was too far east to hold the pattern, unlike chicago in the midwest. new orleans was always there, too, keeping things decentralized in the south from the start and houston got a boost from assuming some of new orleans roles.
i’m assuming that there must have been a window there for atlanta where boosters claimed “capital of the (entire) south” and had a decent argument but i don’t know enough about atlantas twentieth century history.