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Ironically, I believe the census states that any municipality(city, village, borough, etc.) with at least 2500 people is viewed as being "urban". So, technically, even legitimately small towns can be viewed as "urban".
It generally states their urban but places them under the category of rural or treat them uniformly under Non metropolitan areas in other cases.
I’m pretty confident that coming from where I come from pretty much anything in Mississippi would strike me as country lol. The street views I saw of your city were pretty damn country. Parts of Maryland are country...
So you’re saying it goes Southern..Country...Rural?
I don’t automatically associate “rural” with the south because I’ve been to more rural areas in the north. I’ve never been to the rural south. So “rural” doesn’t fit easily into that spectrum..
LoL. City slickers like yourself are accustom high volume amenities & high density crowds yet i can easily understand why you view if our shoes were reverse.
No. Southern is obviously anyplace in this region of the country with varied characteristics of course. Country & Rural are synonymous twins in my perspective. You can be from the urban small town/city with basic amenities. Or rural/country area with barely anything besides a gas station/piggy wiggly/ juke joints.
When Mississippians moved to other states and people inquire on their hometown/state the first thing comes to mind is a rural in the sticks place 9 times out of 10. They generally don't picture the urban areas.
Ironically, I believe the census states that any municipality(city, village, borough, etc.) with at least 2500 people is viewed as being "urban". So, technically, even legitimately small towns can be viewed as "urban".
i think the definition would be a county or necta where real-estate wouldnt qualify for a hud-1 loan.
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The "country" v "southern" theme comes to mind now, LoL. I would refer to cities like Columbus & Tupelo as southern. To me, Country is everything outside the city/town that's basically neighborhoods/subdivisions of the county. Yes, people from out there & across state line in rural west alabama come here for amenities.
I still chuckle at people in the DMV & B'More areas using "Bama" to describe country bumpkins. When i heard that I'm thinking " I'm not from Alabama ". Down here you say Bama for Alabama in general.
Ironically, I believe the census states that any municipality(city, village, borough, etc.) with at least 2500 people is viewed as being "urban". So, technically, even legitimately small towns can be viewed as "urban".
Well, this is one aspect I disagree with the census. My maternal grandmother( my mother's mom) was from Greensboro AL, small town of 2000-2500. It's tge seat of a county of just 15,000. It's country/rural for sure.lol
Greensboro is considered part of Tuscaloosa metro(235,000), and is a one hour half drive from Birmingham. So not too isolated. Granted, it's situated in a sparsely populated county that is the physical size of Houston, and Tuscaloosa county itself is massive. I've been there once as a kid, and from memory it had the feel of a small town in the deep south. Fun Fact: Chicago's only second African-American mayor, Eugene Sawyer (also a stand-in for the late Harold Washington, first African American mayor) was originally from Greensboro, and my grandmother personally knew him.
Probably a dude from in between DC or Bmore or someone with family in DC, or just originally from DC. It’s 100% a DC term but the cities are close enough (40 miles) you might here someone in the burbs south of Bmore/north of DC say it.
Probably a dude from in between DC or Bmore or someone with family in DC, or just originally from DC. It’s 100% a DC term but the cities are close enough (40 miles) you might here someone in the burbs south of Bmore/north of DC say it.
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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I recall somewhere that a B'More cat did.
I'm sure you did. It's not a part of their regular slang, but I have friends in Bmore who use it.
I've heard NY people use the word bamma as well. It's not unique to the confines of metro DC, although wildly considered a DC area slang term.
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