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re: What City Do You Think of as the Capital of the South?
Posted on 5/1/19 at 3:27 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Posted on 5/1/19 at 3:27 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Richmond? Virginia is really a northern state in disguise 
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Posted on 5/1/19 at 3:28 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
Atlanta? No. First of all, Sherman burned much of it, so it's a postbellum city. And it would be nice if the city was at least "Southern" at this point. The Margaret Mitchell days of Atlanta are long gone; it's now a huge metropolis full of yankee and midwestern transplants, and that's without even getting into the international population. The last time I was in Atlanta, most of the people I encountered were into soccer and honestly I felt like I was in Seattle. I have nothing against these things or demographics, but they are not Southern.
Richmond would have been a good candidate a long time ago, but now VA is a blue state going for the likes of Hillary Clinton. Credit Richmond for not having taken down Monument Avenue...yet.
As far as cities with sophistication, size, and Southern refinement, it's a NOLA or Charleston tossup. If NOLA still had the monuments up, it would be No. 1 with a Whistling Dick shell.
Richmond would have been a good candidate a long time ago, but now VA is a blue state going for the likes of Hillary Clinton. Credit Richmond for not having taken down Monument Avenue...yet.
As far as cities with sophistication, size, and Southern refinement, it's a NOLA or Charleston tossup. If NOLA still had the monuments up, it would be No. 1 with a Whistling Dick shell.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 3:32 pm to YungFO
Posted on 5/1/19 at 6:06 pm to t00f
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Houston is not the south despite the accent.
I agree but going through the airport recently I saw a sign that stated Houston was the capital of the south. I laughed.
If I had to build a Capital building, I’d put it in Charleston,SC. Lots of southern history there. And let’s face it, there is no capital of the south so since this is a made up scenario, might as well put it in a tourist destination so visitors can learn about the heritage.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 6:20 pm to kciDAtaE
Memphis
Posted on 5/1/19 at 6:28 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Where do they hold the SEC Championship Game?
Posted on 5/1/19 at 6:47 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Trucknutsburg
Plantopsville
Gulfshrimplandia
OTBalliana
Plantopsville
Gulfshrimplandia
OTBalliana
This post was edited on 5/1/19 at 6:50 pm
Posted on 5/1/19 at 6:59 pm to Tall Tiger
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Atlanta? No. First of all, Sherman burned much of it, so it's a postbellum city. And it would be nice if the city was at least "Southern" at this point. The Margaret Mitchell days of Atlanta are long gone; it's now a huge metropolis full of yankee and midwestern transplants, and that's without even getting into the international population. The last time I was in Atlanta, most of the people I encountered were into soccer and honestly I felt like I was in Seattle. I have nothing against these things or demographics, but they are not Southern.
It's f'cking Mayberry with skyscrapers.
Maybe what it needs is an NHL team to complete its image of phony-arse "world class city".
...oh wait.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 7:34 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Anywhere south of I-10
This post was edited on 5/1/19 at 7:36 pm
Posted on 5/1/19 at 7:40 pm to yaboidarrell
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Atlanta
Close. Actually it's Athens.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 7:41 pm to Diver Diva
What up Diva?
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:08 pm to FlatTownDawgTiger
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Big Mamou, baw.
I'm from Mamou, and that ain't right.
It's Charleston.
You won't find a whole lot of native Atlantans if you go there. A whole lot of people from somewhere else live there.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:32 pm to LongueCarabine
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It's Charleston.
Y'all say that but nobody has said Savannah.
6 of one half dozen of another
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:37 pm to gthog61
Ciudad de Mexico
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:39 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Lexington
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:44 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Wherever the REC tells me it is.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:48 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Tallulah
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:48 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Was talking to a buddy and without a doubt in my mind it’s Richmond
I think of Richmond as the nerve gas capitol of the south
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Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:53 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Capital of the South?
7th Ward yo.
Posted on 5/1/19 at 8:53 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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without a doubt in my mind it’s Richmond with the close second contender in Montgomery
Yeah in 1863.
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