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Absolutely not. There is very little cultural difference between any of the UK.

I'll take your word for it. I don't know much about the culture of the UK.

Is that really true any more though? It certainly doesn't come across that way in the increasingly savage political partisan divide. When you hear a lot of southerners talking about Obama and the federal system they aren't just anti they are expressing real hatred. You have a lot of northerners talking that way too. It's a Republican-Democrat divide, and democrats can be found in the south. They're just more conservative.

Hasn't Virginia always been a bit special due to its wealth and position? First, Virginia hasn't always been wealthy. It was savaged by the Civil War and took a while to recover. Second, it's special because of its link to Washington, DC and also Norfolk Naval Base. These federal facilities result in a lot of transients. Both areas have a lot of Northern transplants.

Many say Northern Virginia is no longer southern. I don't share that opinion. I think that's like saying since there is a Chinatown in New York, New York is not American. But to me it's not a terribly useful discussion. My experience has been that if you moved here from the South, you think it's the South, and if you moved here from the North, you think it's the North. I think a better term would be "it's mid-atlantic"