# The town's name is CHARLOTTESVILLE, not CHARLOTTE!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-towns-name-is-charlottesville-not-charlotte/794025>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 19, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-towns-name-is-charlottesville-not-charlotte/794025 "2017-08-19T00:47:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-towns-name-is-charlottesville-not-charlotte/794025/21 "2017-08-23T13:32:08Z")

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Carolina, Charlotte, Maryland … what strange names y’all use there … maybe change them to normal names like Albuquerque, Sacramento or Tacoma … damn foreigners don’t speak English worth a damn … no wonder the confusion …

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-towns-name-is-charlottesville-not-charlotte/794025/22 "2017-08-23T16:51:06Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> Charlottesvile is in Virginia, the inappropriately proud former capitol of the Confederacy.

It saddens me that all the black people in Charlottesville are so proud of being a part of the Confederacy and being White Suprematists.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-towns-name-is-charlottesville-not-charlotte/794025/23 "2017-08-23T18:45:31Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> “Bear with me,” I texted, after one broke into my home.

The other person asked, “How do I get to your house?” but by that time the bear had departed from the scene, so I texted back, “Bear left.”

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