Chicago is country (Part 2) (Detroit: school, pay, place)

[GreatLakesStateofMind]

Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis

IMO, the south has had more influence on Chicago than Chicago has had on the south.

From my personal experience, people are people. There may be a different accent, people may walk faster we may live around big buildings with traffic but there isn't that big of a difference.

I noticed when living in Memphis, Chicagoans who relocate make it sound as if memphis was so much worse in terms of sophistication and other things. Now that I've experienced what I've experience, there isn't 2 cents worth of difference between the people.

Now the city has a lot more to offer but people are the same.

I agree

[Warsie]

Originally Posted by 55degrees

The Midwest is not a Northern version of the South. Most of it's inhabitants are not from the South originally.

Southern Illinois, Indiana, all of Missouri Was settled by 'southerners'

also hes referring to rural ppl.

[JacksonPanther]

Chicago is full of Black people from Mississippi.
Detroit is full of Black people from Alabama.
New York, Philly, and DC are full of Black people from South Carolina and Georgia.

Look at a map, and it's obvious...

Black people in LA, Seattle, Denver, don't have the same history.

Are white people that ignorant of the Great Migration? You guys don't learn anything about the history of Black people in America unless you take a "Black History" class? Which I presume none of you took?

[GreatLakesStateofMind]

[quote=JacksonPanther;25186379]Chicago is full of Black people from Mississippi.
Detroit is full of Black people from Alabama.
New York, Philly, and DC are full of Black people from South Carolina and Georgia.

Look at a map, and it's obvious...

Black people in LA, Seattle, Denver, don't have the same history.{Quote]

Thank You...That about sums it up

[DoneWithDallas]

There's a difference between country and southern.

And black people are EVERYWHERE. So are whites, Hispanics, Asians, whatever. I don't need a black history class to tell me that.. And no I didn't take one because it's not part of anyones curriculum unless you're an african American studies major. I guess I need a geography lesson to tell me where people migrate though. Oops.

[snoylekim]

Southwestern Illinois and Southwest Missouri were settled by the French .. while Chicago was still a northern outpost, French New World culture was getting a big foothold in that area .. decendants and some of the culture remain to this day ..

[Chi-town Native]

Chicago isn't "country" because of the Civil War. the Great Migration didn't happen due to natural causes like a drought or buffalo herd movement.

I've been hearing southern politicians and bible-thumping hypocrites my entire life talk about how the Civil War isn't over, and it's true - it is the northern states which continue to pay more than we get back into the federal kitty while local governments down south drain federal tax resources while fussing about their right to put Confederate flags and quasi-science into courthouses and schools respectively. They should consider themselves lucky we didn't let them secede in the first place.

[55degrees]

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

Chicago is full of Black people from Mississippi.
Detroit is full of Black people from Alabama.
New York, Philly, and DC are full of Black people from South Carolina and Georgia.

Look at a map, and it's obvious...

Black people in LA, Seattle, Denver, don't have the same history.

Are white people that ignorant of the Great Migration? You guys don't learn anything about the history of Black people in America unless you take a "Black History" class? Which I presume none of you took?

Yes, I see the Southern roots of black people in Chicago, but that's just one race. And I'm not white.

[reppin_the_847]

NYC is a little bit different (especially as of the last decade). I'd say that immigrant blacks (ie. from the Carribbean & Africa) potentially outnumber or at least rival the percentage of descendants southern blacks that came from the Carolinas & Georgia.

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

Chicago is full of Black people from Mississippi.
Detroit is full of Black people from Alabama.
New York, Philly, and DC are full of Black people from South Carolina and Georgia.

Look at a map, and it's obvious...

Black people in LA, Seattle, Denver, don't have the same history.{Quote]

Thank You...That about sums it up

[LakeShoreSoxGo]

Some one who says "y'all" calling us country. Effing classic.