Mason Dixon line starts at maryland… Hell yeah those fuckers are racist
wokewhale on
That town was named after John Lynch, an abolitionist. Not saying Virginia aint racist, I’m not even from the US, I just remember trivial things I read online
But then, you know, “leave slavery in the past” or whatever. /s
annon4me on
The capital of the confederacy was literally in VA it’s a southern state. But NoVA part is the DMV and def not “the south”
Double_Dingo1089 on
Richmond was the capitol of Confederacy.
bwolf180 on
I mean they voted for Kamala Harris… they took down the statues. it is not the same
Kangarou on
Virginia is technically a southern state. But the SE and North corners of Virginia don’t identify with that at all.
-A Virginian.
liquifiedtubaplayer on
People get mad that politics get treated like memes then use factually incorrect memes to form their own beliefs
CombinationLivid8284 on
Richmond, Virginia was the literal capital of the confederacy.
Wheeler_Dealer1 on
Virginia also has a place called Goochland. Who knows what freaky shit is happening over there?
temporarycreature on
The capital of the failed Confederacy was Richmond, Virginia. They were and are definitely Southern.
akaynaveed on
Southern Virginia is weird as fuck… i lived in Buena Vista near Lynchburg and yea… its what you think it is…
but also being from Lousiana, virginia was never considered by me to be the south..
but if racism is the metric of being a souther state, then this whole country is the confederacy.
GenericPCUser on
VA is weird as fuck. The area outside of DC is like LA if it were populated entirely by feds and defense contractors and their families.
And then rural VA looks like a bunch of rustbelt towns with “historic plantations” sprinkled in every couple miles.
HMThrow_away_account on
VA is technically a Southern State but we all know the truth
DianneNettix on
It’s not like Richmond was the capital and Grant capturing it ended the war or anything.
popshamhocks on
Virginia Slave Codes, look them up. Virginia built the frame of the machine
captainsmoothie on
There’s a street in Springfield VA called Field Master Drive.
riticalcreader on
Lynchington, Lynchsdale, West Lynchister
Ive got nothing to add, that is all.
rokr1292 on
Richmond Virginia was the capital of the confederacy
TequilaAndWeed on
The sweet tea line is the true geographical demarcation.
Bunnnnii on
If it ain’t southern then what else is it?
ginger_qc on
Lifelong resident of “The South” and have lived in NC, VA, TN, and KY
SWVA feels VERY southern. I lived in Roanoke and Rocky Mount and lemme tell you they are not shy about their “heritage.” Richmond, on the other hand, feels like a blend of a northern and southern city. Eastern Kentucky felt more Midwestern in places but still very Southern.
HotTakesMyToxicTrait on
the modern Mason Dixon line is really at like Fredricksburg VA right below where the DC metro finishes up
Southern VA is the south, but idk how anyone can spend time in like Arlington or Fairfax and be convinced that’s the south
Same with like anything between baltimore and dc, definitely not southern
Certain_Degree687 on
As a non-native Virginian who has been living in Virginia for going on a decade now, I’ve got some input on this matter and can say without a doubt, THIS IS ONE OF THE DUMBEST TAKES I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!
Virginia may be the furthest northern state that can be considered the south but its state capital was the freaking capital of the damn Confederacy from May of 1861 onwards until the end of the war!
Plus, despite what people think, Central, Southern and Western VA is home to some of the most backwoods country hicks you’ll ever see in your life; in places like Nelson, you’ll see people who are definitely the byproduct of people swimming around in their own gene pools whilst simultaneously swearing Trump was the greatest President who ever lived.
Trust me, VA is not at all like what you see in places like Alexandria, Richmond or VA Beach, those are the civilized areas.
Spork-in-Your-Rye on
I consider anything past DC the south and that includes Maryland lol
redditdoesnotcareany on
Virginia is the northern most southern state. They absolutely believe they are southerners.
FYI Lynchburg was named after the good Lynch brother, not the one Lynching comes from.
lleighsha on
Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy.
813_4ever on
To be southern you have actually be in the south…plus every person I met from Virginia in college couldn’t cook greens….the north can have them lol
squishyliquid on
Students at a local college we’re looking to make changes, and one of their demands was changing the name of the Lynch building due to the connotations. This building was also named after a guy named Lynch. The kids basically got ignored and made fun of for that, ruining chances for their other complaints to be adequately addressed.
Loreki on
Lynch is an Irish family name. The practice of “lynching”is named after a person (or people) called Lynch , who sat as the judge in an informal court in Virginia during the revolutionary war.
Any town named Lynchburg or Lynchville or similar is likely named after a person called Lynch. Not the fondness of the locals for extra judicial violence.
AdRoKa on
The state of VA is a melting pot at this point. Hampton Roads especially. They got the south, they got folks who started up north, and they got the military. People from all over. The western part of the state is a different story. That has your traditional southern feel.
Jdazzle217 on
There are easy some very easy tests to answer this question.
1) Did the state have slavery until the Civil War?
2) Was the state part of the Confederacy?
3) Did the state have de jure segregation into the 1950s and 1960s?
4) Is the state below the Mason Dixon and in the Eastern US?
If the answer to any of those questions is yes, it’s the South.
Edit: The Supreme Court case legalizing interracial marriage is Lovings vs Virginia in 1967! Virginia banned interracial until 1967! And literally held on to the law until they forced to abandon it. It’s the South. [The map of when anti-miscegenation laws were repealed is nearly a perfect overlap of the South.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_miscegenation.svg#mw-jump-to-license)
JoyRideinaMinivan on
Back in the 90s, colleges used to send stuff to high school juniors and seniors in the mail. I got a VHS from a school and fell in love! I was ready to go until I saw the city it resided in: Lynchburg, VA. I immediately through it in the trash.
Pushup_Zebra on
In colonial times, Virginia was considered the richest, classiest part of the South, so now, when the South is the trashiest part of the country, Virginia stands a little ways apart from the other Southern states.
elitegenoside on
People forget there’s a whole southern part of VA. I grew up in the mountains and can confirm Virginia is absolutely the South.
Spoonfed_Fred on
Richmond was the capital of the confederacy.
GoldLeaderActual on
Depends on what you mean by “Southern”.
For many it’s the mid-line through the nation. For some, it’s the states that were part of or sympathetic to the Confederate States of America and their ideologies.
But slave-states that stayed in the Union were able to keep their enslaved humans throughout the Civil War.
TurntHermit on
I had a homie that we used to call Toke. I guess he got the name from some of his white homies cuz he was the Token black guy at a point. Anyway, he went to college in Lynchburg and fuckin LOVED it. Go figure lol.
MistressGomorrah on
Lynchburg, TN is the one that’s sus.
scotty757 on
Born and raised in southwest Virginia. Virginia is the most northern Southern state. Its roots are deep in what we consider the historical south. Plus if drive through there southwest virginia you will know
Gates_wupatki_zion on
I grew up in the DMV and have been all over the state. Virginia is a southern state in pockets. Hell even NY and Maine have their “southern” parts. It is mostly rural vs urban more than anything. It is changing too, I went to VCU with all the confederate statues on Monument Drive. Then they all got tagged and painted so they came down. I don’t think a true southern town would’ve done that — they would’ve imprisoned the people for vandalism and put the statues back up.
Steve-Deschain on
ain’t gonna lie I ain’t never considered Virginia or the Carolinas as “The South”. I live in the South, I gotta travel like 17 hours north to get up there. Are they country as hell, maybe. but that shit ain’t “The South”. There are country ass people in New York and Pennsylvania, don’t make it the south.
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Lynchburg was founded in 1757 by John Lynch, a Quaker ferry operator and abolitionist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lynch_%281740%E2%80%931820%29?wprov=sfla1
Mason Dixon line starts at maryland… Hell yeah those fuckers are racist
That town was named after John Lynch, an abolitionist. Not saying Virginia aint racist, I’m not even from the US, I just remember trivial things I read online
Lynchburg is crazyyyyy. Almost every state in the South has a “Lee County” too, named for [Robert Lee](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-E-Lee).
But then, you know, “leave slavery in the past” or whatever. /s
The capital of the confederacy was literally in VA it’s a southern state. But NoVA part is the DMV and def not “the south”
Richmond was the capitol of Confederacy.
I mean they voted for Kamala Harris… they took down the statues. it is not the same
Virginia is technically a southern state. But the SE and North corners of Virginia don’t identify with that at all.
-A Virginian.
People get mad that politics get treated like memes then use factually incorrect memes to form their own beliefs
Richmond, Virginia was the literal capital of the confederacy.
Virginia also has a place called Goochland. Who knows what freaky shit is happening over there?
The capital of the failed Confederacy was Richmond, Virginia. They were and are definitely Southern.
Southern Virginia is weird as fuck… i lived in Buena Vista near Lynchburg and yea… its what you think it is…
but also being from Lousiana, virginia was never considered by me to be the south..
but if racism is the metric of being a souther state, then this whole country is the confederacy.
VA is weird as fuck. The area outside of DC is like LA if it were populated entirely by feds and defense contractors and their families.
And then rural VA looks like a bunch of rustbelt towns with “historic plantations” sprinkled in every couple miles.
VA is technically a Southern State but we all know the truth
It’s not like Richmond was the capital and Grant capturing it ended the war or anything.
Virginia Slave Codes, look them up. Virginia built the frame of the machine
There’s a street in Springfield VA called Field Master Drive.
Lynchington, Lynchsdale, West Lynchister
Ive got nothing to add, that is all.
Richmond Virginia was the capital of the confederacy
The sweet tea line is the true geographical demarcation.
If it ain’t southern then what else is it?
Lifelong resident of “The South” and have lived in NC, VA, TN, and KY
SWVA feels VERY southern. I lived in Roanoke and Rocky Mount and lemme tell you they are not shy about their “heritage.” Richmond, on the other hand, feels like a blend of a northern and southern city. Eastern Kentucky felt more Midwestern in places but still very Southern.
the modern Mason Dixon line is really at like Fredricksburg VA right below where the DC metro finishes up
Southern VA is the south, but idk how anyone can spend time in like Arlington or Fairfax and be convinced that’s the south
Same with like anything between baltimore and dc, definitely not southern
As a non-native Virginian who has been living in Virginia for going on a decade now, I’ve got some input on this matter and can say without a doubt, THIS IS ONE OF THE DUMBEST TAKES I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!
Virginia may be the furthest northern state that can be considered the south but its state capital was the freaking capital of the damn Confederacy from May of 1861 onwards until the end of the war!
Plus, despite what people think, Central, Southern and Western VA is home to some of the most backwoods country hicks you’ll ever see in your life; in places like Nelson, you’ll see people who are definitely the byproduct of people swimming around in their own gene pools whilst simultaneously swearing Trump was the greatest President who ever lived.
Trust me, VA is not at all like what you see in places like Alexandria, Richmond or VA Beach, those are the civilized areas.
I consider anything past DC the south and that includes Maryland lol
Virginia is the northern most southern state. They absolutely believe they are southerners.
FYI Lynchburg was named after the good Lynch brother, not the one Lynching comes from.
Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy.
To be southern you have actually be in the south…plus every person I met from Virginia in college couldn’t cook greens….the north can have them lol
Students at a local college we’re looking to make changes, and one of their demands was changing the name of the Lynch building due to the connotations. This building was also named after a guy named Lynch. The kids basically got ignored and made fun of for that, ruining chances for their other complaints to be adequately addressed.
Lynch is an Irish family name. The practice of “lynching”is named after a person (or people) called Lynch , who sat as the judge in an informal court in Virginia during the revolutionary war.
Any town named Lynchburg or Lynchville or similar is likely named after a person called Lynch. Not the fondness of the locals for extra judicial violence.
The state of VA is a melting pot at this point. Hampton Roads especially. They got the south, they got folks who started up north, and they got the military. People from all over. The western part of the state is a different story. That has your traditional southern feel.
There are easy some very easy tests to answer this question.
1) Did the state have slavery until the Civil War?
2) Was the state part of the Confederacy?
3) Did the state have de jure segregation into the 1950s and 1960s?
4) Is the state below the Mason Dixon and in the Eastern US?
If the answer to any of those questions is yes, it’s the South.
Edit: The Supreme Court case legalizing interracial marriage is Lovings vs Virginia in 1967! Virginia banned interracial until 1967! And literally held on to the law until they forced to abandon it. It’s the South. [The map of when anti-miscegenation laws were repealed is nearly a perfect overlap of the South.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_miscegenation.svg#mw-jump-to-license)
Back in the 90s, colleges used to send stuff to high school juniors and seniors in the mail. I got a VHS from a school and fell in love! I was ready to go until I saw the city it resided in: Lynchburg, VA. I immediately through it in the trash.
In colonial times, Virginia was considered the richest, classiest part of the South, so now, when the South is the trashiest part of the country, Virginia stands a little ways apart from the other Southern states.
People forget there’s a whole southern part of VA. I grew up in the mountains and can confirm Virginia is absolutely the South.
Richmond was the capital of the confederacy.
Depends on what you mean by “Southern”.
For many it’s the mid-line through the nation. For some, it’s the states that were part of or sympathetic to the Confederate States of America and their ideologies.
But slave-states that stayed in the Union were able to keep their enslaved humans throughout the Civil War.
I had a homie that we used to call Toke. I guess he got the name from some of his white homies cuz he was the Token black guy at a point. Anyway, he went to college in Lynchburg and fuckin LOVED it. Go figure lol.
Lynchburg, TN is the one that’s sus.
Born and raised in southwest Virginia. Virginia is the most northern Southern state. Its roots are deep in what we consider the historical south. Plus if drive through there southwest virginia you will know
I grew up in the DMV and have been all over the state. Virginia is a southern state in pockets. Hell even NY and Maine have their “southern” parts. It is mostly rural vs urban more than anything. It is changing too, I went to VCU with all the confederate statues on Monument Drive. Then they all got tagged and painted so they came down. I don’t think a true southern town would’ve done that — they would’ve imprisoned the people for vandalism and put the statues back up.
ain’t gonna lie I ain’t never considered Virginia or the Carolinas as “The South”. I live in the South, I gotta travel like 17 hours north to get up there. Are they country as hell, maybe. but that shit ain’t “The South”. There are country ass people in New York and Pennsylvania, don’t make it the south.