D.C Is the most influential place in America

[get these nets]

I agree with you OP. Not for the reasons you stated.

But I'm sorry, this had me dying.



Call a city under the mason dixon line a "northern city" brehs.

DC's also had the biggest influence on black education and academia
black politics
black professions

someone you look up to has ties to howard. or someone that that person looks up to has ties to howard.

on a national scale though, wall street dictates capitol hill which dictates the rest of america.

Gonna agree with only part of this. I do think that Howard U. is the link that would connect most of the members here and most Black people in the country, on some six degrees of separation stuff.In fact I think Howard reduces the degree of separation to four.

I'm familiar with the history of DC in terms of the areas you mentioned,but I think their significance waned decades ago. Ironically, I think that your city, Chicago, has had greater significance and influence than DC across different arenas in the past 50 years.

 

[Supper]

Growing up in Louisiana we were influenced by houston and New Orleans. Houston was influenced heavy by LA, new orleans was too,

*Cali....There was NorCal influence down here too.

And that 337 is family for us, since before I-10 even existed.

 

[Spade]

so you gon tell a nikka born in philly who grew up in pg that the two cities talk the same? It’s 2020, of course a lot of lingo around the country is shared but cmon breh.

Ask anybody from philly and up if they think DC act just like them. Guarantee you gon hear no.

And I’m not hatin cuz like I said I grew up there so I was supporting your argument.DC is unique and influential.

go-go is unique. The local clothing brands that we came up on is unique, the lingo is/was unique.


You diluting it by tryna claim DC sound like Philly/Jersey/NY cuz it don’t and that’s part of what makes it unique. FOH



ima go head and ignore that cac shyt...

I know in other forums, you will have folks from
Philly say DC is way different from them and NYC and they also look at DC as going down South which is technically right. DC do have some areas that remind you of the south. Go into some parts of Southeast and you would think you’re in North Carolina. At the same time, the majority of DC are rowhomes and Midrises. I don’t know if rowhomes make a city Northern because even Richmond nd Savannah have these.

I would say DC influences parts of VA and NC. I don’t see any where DC influences Pennsylvania and it fights with Baltimore for Maryland. It’s not surprising tho. DC is relatively the youngest out of the major cities from Massachusetts down to Georgia.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I know in other forums, you will have folks from
Philly say DC is way different from them and NYC and they also look at DC as going down South which is technically right. DC do have some areas that remind you of the south. Go into some parts of Southeast and you would think you’re in North Carolina. At the same time, the majority of DC are rowhomes and Midrises. I don’t know if rowhomes make a city Northern because even Richmond nd Savannah have these.

I would say DC influences parts of VA and NC. I don’t see any where DC influences Pennsylvania and it fights with Baltimore for Maryland.

You right about that. You step foot in southeast DC the land definitely shifts even tho I wouldn’t say real estate is spread out like a southern city.

as far as accents it always came off unique. Not too southern not too northern or two much of both?


Baltimore cats have a stronger accent even though their accent sounds northern with a bunch of England cacs sailing to America

 

[Unknown Poster]

DC is a pretty damn cool city not gonna lie. Everytime I've visited I've had a good time, especially when I went to the blacker parts of town.

 

[Spade]

You right about that. You step foot in southeast DC the land definitely shifts even tho I wouldn’t say real estate is spread out like a southern city.

as far as accents it always came off unique. Not too southern not too northern or two much of both?


Baltimore cats have a stronger accent even though their accent sounds northern with a bunch of England cacs sailing to America

I’ll say this. DC might use some words that are use in the Northeast. But the dialect has more Southern undertones in it than folks like to admit. Baltimore is way different from my observations which is crazy seeing as how they are only 45 minutes from each other.

 

[Unknown Poster]

school me on Detroit’s influence cuz I feel like everyone from there is proud as fukk of their city but I’m not getting the influence outside of the region. Unless we talking Motown

Detroit might be the GOAT BLACK midwest city in America....I swear to god man.

Especially for me being a black techno head for decades....that was like visiting mecca when I first went out there back in 2007 to do a show.

 

[How Sway?]

Lol, i thought this thread was gonna about geopolitics too.

But for what its worth d.c. is unique as hell but not as influential as yall make it seem.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Lol, i thought this thread was gonna about geopolitics too.

But for what its worth d.c. is unique as hell but not as influential as yall make it seem.

why not?

 

[Human Torch]

Detroit might be the GOAT BLACK midwest city in America....I swear to god man.

Especially for me being a black techno head for decades....that was like visiting mecca when I first went out there back in 2007 to do a show.

I’m the first one to plead ignorance on the topic...I don’t know much about Detroit

 

[KodeBlue]

DC is unique, but not really all that influential. DC doesn't have much influence on any city to the north of it. The only city that I would say DC has a decent amount of influence is Richmond. The accent resembles those of Richmond, and Hampton Roads.

 

[desjardins]

This thread reaching.
I been all up and down the Mid Atlantic I-95 Philly, Chester, Wilmington, Baltimore, DC, and PG County.
I gotta agree with the dude who said DC sphere of influence pretty much stops at PG County
DC was probably the first place rocking NB hard, I can personally date that back as far as late 90s. But stuff like that has come and gone in cycles and never was THAT influential on any other region. Philly went thru like a 2-3 yr cycle where NB was popular a couple years ago and now no one cares about them again.
gogo music basically had no nationwide cultural impact and that's perhaps DC's biggest export. I joke that the biggest go go band is from Philly...and they don't even play gogo (the roots)
DC kinda underachieves imo. To be one of the wealthiest black areas with so many stable jobs and a deep black culture to have limited cultural impact is a L. DC should have been what Atlanta is and has been the last 2 decades but it never materialized and now DC proper is basically white as shyt

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

Financially it's a black mecca, but it's cultural impact is lightweight. No one cares about gogo music and mumbo sauced outside of the DMV.

 

[invalid]

Chicago, has had greater significance and influence than DC across different arenas in the past 50 years.

In what way?

 

[murksiderock]

You right about that. You step foot in southeast DC the land definitely shifts even tho I wouldn’t say real estate is spread out like a southern city.

as far as accents it always came off unique. Not too southern not too northern or two much of both?


Baltimore cats have a stronger accent even though their accent sounds northern with a bunch of England cacs sailing to America

The accent is a derivative of the old Chesapeake Bay accent that goes back hundreds of years. The Chesapeake Bay is a historically southern area...

It is not uncommon to meet someone from Baltimore, Richmond, DC, or Virginia Beach, or outlying Maryland and Virginia areas, who sound the same. I've witnessed this for years, and I'm not talking about the weird "r" sound Baltimoreans use, that's enunciation. I'm talking about dialect and accent, people from these areas are tied together with literally hundreds of years of culture and moving back and forth throughout the entire area, long before anybody even thought to say Maryland wasn't the South...

Obviously things vary with time and all of these areas have unique quirks to their speech but the "typical" accent for most native Marylanders and Virginians is a Chesapeake Bay derivative. Being that DC was literally created as a joint Maryland/VA project city it falls well within logic here...and personally I don't get how anybody hears a DC accent and thinks it isn't sharply southern-influenced at the very least, unless you think all southern accents are the same and/or aren't able to differentiate between southern accents...

I know in other forums, you will have folks from
Philly say DC is way different from them and NYC and they also look at DC as going down South which is technically right. DC do have some areas that remind you of the south. Go into some parts of Southeast and you would think you’re in North Carolina. At the same time, the majority of DC are rowhomes and Midrises. I don’t know if rowhomes make a city Northern because even Richmond nd Savannah have these.

I would say DC influences parts of VA and NC. I don’t see any where DC influences Pennsylvania and it fights with Baltimore for Maryland. It’s not surprising tho. DC is relatively the youngest out of the major cities from Massachusetts down to Georgia.

I think rows are a period thing, result of a certain time period, but even still most southern cities didn't have them. Wilmington NC literally has like a block of rowhomes, Savannah doesn't have many, either. Richmond has a bunch and so did Norfolk pre-urban renewal...

Even still, the typical rowhome in Philly and Bmore faces right up to the street, are almost exclusively brick, and typically lack yard space, tree cover, or significant porches. The rows in DC are typically the opposite and are what I call "southern" rows, clearly the design and landscaping is different...

Average Philly row:

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Baltimore rows:

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Some Bmore/Philly rows have porches but no yards, some have yards but no real porches, almost all are entirely brick. Different aesthetics, now look at this...

DC rows:

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Richmond rows:

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DC/Rich, typically a lot more colorful, varied style (not just brick), alot more tree cover, set back further from street...

Granted, you can find examples in all, these are random links but this is what I observed years ago between these places. They are all rows, which, cool if someone considers that a Northern housing style, but there is variance from the DC/Rich to the Philly/Bmore rows, the two cities on the south have a more flamboyant and extravagant style while the two cities to the north are more blunt and nondescript...

You can pick hoods in DC and Rich and wouldn't be able to tell them apart, same with Philly and Bmore. You can tell the difference between a DC and Bmore neighborhood, though...