Didn’t JFK say that DC combined the best of Northern charm and Southern efficiency?
Heh...I go by that liquor store a couple times a week on my way to grad school classes. I never actually noticed the name.
It’s astonishing to hear an actual Virginia or Southern Maryland accent around here anymore.
I was born in DC, my grandfather was a DC Trolleyman, and my Mom had an authentic Southern Maryland accent (and one of my uncles had the same accent so thick he was incomprehensible - like Boomhauer on King of the Hill.)
Many people in the DC area are from NY, New England and Pennsylvania. When the jobs left these areas and there was no opportunity many people left for the DC area where there were plenty of high paying jobs. There are many people from West Virginia too.
Politicians allow illegal immigrants to to ignore the law and get very generous social services for themselves and their families. The DC area attracts many of them.
LLS
So we Yankees are classed alongside the illegals??? We aren't foreigners, for goodness sake!
Yes, JFK said that about D.C.
As a Hoosier transplant to the Northern Virginia suburbs, I maintain that the Old Dominion doesn't really start until you get south of the Rappahannock River.
In 1979, I went to DC to spend the summer. The day after I arrived, I realized I was in the South when I saw grits and scrapple on my breakfast plate.
In 2007, I returned to DC after many years. The restaurant where I had eaten grits and scrapple was gone, but not far away was a Chipotle Grill, part of a chain that specializes in Mexican cookery—a cuisine not to be found in DC in 1979.