Wyandotte, MI is a small older Polish enclave that is basically surrounded by Detroit's sprawling suburbs. It is a smaller city with a population around 30,000, but it has its own electric and water utilities, it has its own cable company (you can't have anything but the city-run cable), and many of the roads that travel through the city have a different name than the traditional name. e.g. Jefferson Ave runs through the city as "Biddle Ave". One thing that is unique about their dialect that I've noticed is that a lot of them call the remote control the "channel", as in a shorthand version of "channel changer". Also, there is a restaurant on the edge of the city that serves among other strange things Muskrat.
They are their own people: which cities?
Certain US cities have an unusual mix of people with blood lines going back generations and have been able to tune out enough of the main stream media, the internet, and television to maintain their uniqueness.
These are the cities where people still use the same quaint expressions of generations past and where loyalty to neighborhood often exceeds loyalty to city. They may be diverse in background, but they clearly are not homogenized Americans; sense of home town is ingrained in them no matter what their ethnic, racial, or religious background.
These cities tend to have long roots, are east of the Mississippi where settlement was more nuanced,localized, older, and less generically American with a much stronger regional component. They generally speaking aren't the biggest centers from either US or foreign relocation and thus their character tends to be more freeze framed in time.
Some of the chief ones that come to mind: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and New Orleans. (on a far smaller population scale, Charleston and Savannah would fit the bill) Would you include those three (Pgh, Balt, NO) and what other cities would fit the description of "a world apart"?
These are the cities where people still use the same quaint expressions of generations past and where loyalty to neighborhood often exceeds loyalty to city. They may be diverse in background, but they clearly are not homogenized Americans; sense of home town is ingrained in them no matter what their ethnic, racial, or religious background.
These cities tend to have long roots, are east of the Mississippi where settlement was more nuanced,localized, older, and less generically American with a much stronger regional component. They generally speaking aren't the biggest centers from either US or foreign relocation and thus their character tends to be more freeze framed in time.
Some of the chief ones that come to mind: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and New Orleans. (on a far smaller population scale, Charleston and Savannah would fit the bill) Would you include those three (Pgh, Balt, NO) and what other cities would fit the description of "a world apart"?
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Certain US cities have an unusual mix of people with blood lines going back generations and have been able to tune out enough of the main stream media, the internet, and television to maintain their uniqueness.
These are the cities where people still use the same quaint expressions of generations past and where loyalty to neighborhood often exceeds loyalty to city. They may be diverse in background, but they clearly are not homogenized Americans; sense of home town is ingrained in them no matter what their ethnic, racial, or religious background.
These cities tend to have long roots, are east of the Mississippi where settlement was more nuanced,localized, older, and less generically American with a much stronger regional component. They generally speaking aren't the biggest centers from either US or foreign relocation and thus their character tends to be more freeze framed in time.
Some of the chief ones that come to mind: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and New Orleans. (on a far smaller population scale, Charleston and Savannah would fit the bill) Would you include those three (Pgh, Balt, NO) and what other cities would fit the description of "a world apart"?
I would add Winston-Salem, NC and Richmond, VA to this list of established older cities that are unique to themselves.
Providence, RI comes to mind
Salt Lake City maybe? I also think possibly San Antonio, all the Tejanos.
people from Boston MA
St. Louis is pretty freakin insular, definitely not your typical mainstream city.
Boston is undeniably distinctive in this sense. What negates Boston is the number of people who move to it (often college students who went to school in the Boston area).people from Boston MA
People from Miami. Strong jewish and hispanic ancestry.
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