It's a weird hybrid. I knew it was southern when I got here from New York because it was easier to find grits and randoms will say hello to you on the street, but it has a brusque-ness that is distinctly northern. And accents that are very foreign to a southern ear.

I dunno... I like it now? Always shocks me, because it was a very subtle adaptation and assimilation. I hated Baltimore for the first two or three years, initially. Such a strange, but lovely and sometimes unforgiving place. 🤷🏿‍♀️ Eudora Welty might have liked it, but she would have most definitely lived in Keswick or Evergreen.