[urbanscraper]

nicknames can be "official" nicknames such as "The Queen City" for Charlotte or nicknames that people call the city such as "Hotlanta" for Atlanta

here are the nicknames for Greensboro.

official nickname- "The Gate City"

other nicknames- "The Boro" "The G Spot"

[Style]

the queen city or the qc for charlotte.

[LouisianaRush]

New Orleans:
The Crescent City
The Big Easy
The Queen City of the South

Miami:
Magic City

Houston:
Bayou City
Space City

[shanthemanatl]

Atlanta--

"The ATL"
"The Big Peach"
"A-Town"
And, as already mentioned, "Hotlanta"

[thoraudio]

Montgomery

Goat Hill
da' Gump
Monkeytown (growing up, I was told this was because of the politicians, although urban dictionary has it listed as a racial perjorative)

[LSyd]

Columbia - "Cola" for short, Murderworld (inside joke)
Charleston - Chucktown, Chas
Birmingham - Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, Bham, Armpit of the South, The Ham
Knoxville - Knox-Vegas, K-town, Knox, "Nawksvull" (as the locals pronounce it)

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[SouthSky]

Mobile:
The Port City
The Azalea City
MOB or MOB-town ('hip' nicknames)

[Buck]

Recently, I heard that people are now dropping the town from "The A-town" for Atlanta and just calling it "The A."

[tennreb]

Memphis:

"Bluff City"
"River City"
and the infamous "Memphrica"

[zodiac]

Winston-Salem has been known as:
The Twin City - because the towns of Winston and Salem merged back in 1913 I believe was the year.
Camel City - RJR's symbol for their tobacco product for years.

[WesTheAngelino]

Jackson, Mississippi:

Jack-town

[Teshadoh]

Spartanburg - Sparkle City

...and practically every city that is a -ville: 'vegas' - G-vegas, Nashvegas, etc.

[RobMidtowner]

Recently, I heard that people are now dropping the town from "The A-town" for Atlanta and just calling it "The A."

That might have something to do with people moving to Atlanta after graduating from "The U" (Univ. of Miami).

[dfwtiger]

Columbia - "Cola" for short, Murderworld (inside joke)
Charleston - Chucktown, Chas
Birmingham - Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, Bham, Armpit of the South, The Ham
Knoxville - Knox-Vegas, K-town, Knox, "Nawksvull" (as the locals pronounce it)

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When I was a kid........any city that ended in "ville" became "vegas"...So...Nashvegas...Knoxvegas...although it did not work on all ville cities...Louisville.....we re-named them all. My personal favorite...NASHVEGAS.....is sounds like the name of a cop in a FOX detective drama.

[initiald]

I think like Cashville better thank Nashvegas. I've heard Charlotte also refered to as the CLT on the radio. I think every city should just go by its airport code

[HSV79]

HUNTSVILLE:

The Watercress capitol...it is some kind of plant that grows on the waters around here. It was the claim to fame for Huntsville until the rocket industry took over in the 50s-60s.

Rocket City
Space City U.S.A.
Huntsvegas
The Ville

[Randy Sandford]

Columbia - "Cola" for short, Murderworld (inside joke)
Charleston - Chucktown, Chas
Birmingham - Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, Bham, Armpit of the South, The Ham
Knoxville - Knox-Vegas, K-town, Knox, "Nawksvull" (as the locals pronounce it)
Hmmm...that's the first time I've heard Birmingham referred to as the "Armpit of the South." I did a Google search, and surprisingly, Columbia SC turned up more often in the search results. Saw Birmingham once, and other cities too. ;)

[RockHillJames]

Charleston is also called "the Holy City"

[bobdreamz]

^ isn't that because Charleston is full of churches?...at least that is what I heard.

[Hankster]

The most notable nickname for Chattanooga is The Scenic City. For Nashville, Music City, of course.

[yadkinv]

Winston-Salem also:

City of the Arts (first Arts Council in the US - 1945, I think)

Gateway to the Blue Ridge (closest large city in NC to the Blue Ridge - 30 miles south of the Blue Ridge Parkway at Mount Airy)

Gateway to the Yadkin Valley Wine Country - a new one because there are more than 15 wineries (and growing) within 30 minutes of downtown Winston-Salem (2 in Forsyth County), and around 30 wineries less than 1 hour's drive. The Yadkin Valley is the only one in North Carolina (and maybe the East) to have a Viniculture certified name as in Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley wines, which means that the area is of note and that and wine bearing the appelation must have been made with at least 80 percent of grapes grown in the bounded area (Yadkin Valley) of the appelation.

[pobjeda]

Little Rock = the Rock (what else?)

[MattSal]

Augusta, Georgia

Official nickname I think: Garden City of the South

Not as commonly used, by I like it: Georgia's Second City

Some people feel the need to say: Disgusta

What we will probably be called in 5 years: James Brown City :haha:

Gotta love the AUG.

[Lexy]

Yeah, Cashville and Music City USA are the two most popular. I do hear Nashvegas a bunch too, but mainly from non-locals who just like to call it that. Which is cool.

[DallasTexan]

I always call Nashville Nash, BNA, or Nashy.

...but I'm weird.

[atlantaguy]

Well, over the years Atlanta has been known as:
Gate City
The City too Busy to Hate
Resurgens City

[cabasse]

Hmmm...that's the first time I've heard Birmingham referred to as the "Armpit of the South." I did a Google search, and surprisingly, Columbia SC turned up more often in the search results. Saw Birmingham once, and other cities too. ;)

...from the same guy who thinks ga is the new jersey of the south.

with cities like atlanta, athens, savannah, augusta... (although ga's got a garden city, haha)

[GREGGYMIAMI305]

miami:........

MIA
305
dade county(florida)
the magic city
da bottom
southern flawda
cocaine capital
M-I-YA-YO
southpole

[lilred731]

Hello all here are a few for you of Nashville:
The Athens of the South, Music City, Cashville, Nashvegas, Nastyville.

And about the airport code BNA if you were to pronounce it is BANANA. Doesn't have the ring of ATL, MIA, or MEM.

[austin356]

^^Those are some very interesting names for miami. I like the coca theme.


not very orginal but Tuscaloosa is called T-town sometimes more often among the younger people than the actual name.

[NCB]

New Orleans:

The Big Easy
Crescent City
The City that Care Forgot
Original Sin City
Paris of America
NOLA
The 504
The N.O.
The Dirty Dirty
Chopper City

[Exodus]

Mobile -The Mother of Mystics

[KB0679]

Hmmm...that's the first time I've heard Birmingham referred to as the "Armpit of the South." I did a Google search, and surprisingly, Columbia SC turned up more often in the search results. Saw Birmingham once, and other cities too. ;)

Typically, Columbia is called that due to the muggy heat/humidity during the summers (they can be kinda brutal, if you're not really used to it).

Charleston is called "the Holy City" due to all of the steeples dotting the city's skyline.

[FILA20]

Robmidtowner- "the A" did not come from "the U"- the A surfaced from the southside of atlanta candler road. old national, rainbow, glenwood, macafee, memorial areas it is from Atlanta just like A town, others that say "H town" or "D town" are copying "A town" the southside hip hop vibe made "the A" or "A town" these are the urban areas and this is where i grew up miami had no influence on our hip hop lingo for atl- just to inform not to be snide or bitchy but i feel like the southside atl... the real southside has little representation of people who are from the real impoverished areas of atlanta where most people like to take these nicknames from without knowing their origins

[land234]

Athens GA Classic City

[TexasBoi]

Robmidtowner- "the A" did not come from "the U"- the A surfaced from the southside of atlanta candler road. old national, rainbow, glenwood, macafee, memorial areas it is from Atlanta just like A town, others that say "H town" or "D town" are copying "A town" the southside hip hop vibe made "the A" or "A town" these are the urban areas and this is where i grew up miami had no influence on our hip hop lingo for atl- just to inform not to be snide or bitchy but i feel like the southside atl... the real southside has little representation of people who are from the real impoverished areas of atlanta where most people like to take these nicknames from without knowing their origins
:haha:
lmao. Sorry to inform you, but it's the other way around. H-Town started that one and has been said in that city for decades. Remember the R&B group, H-Town? Yeah, they came out in the very early 90's and were from Houston. Atlanta was known as ATL around then. They just recently got on the [letter]-town thing.

[Rebeldon]

Jacksonville, Florida:

The First Coast
Gateway to Florida
The Bold New City of The South
River City
City of Bridges
City of Neighborhoods
Jax
Home of Southern Rock
Murder Capital of Florida
J'ville
Jack-town
Duval
Bang'em Ville
Trillville
da 904
da Ville
Cowford
Jack-&-Kill

[Trae]

Houston:

H-Town
The H
Bayou City
Screwston

:haha:
lmao. Sorry to inform you, but it's the other way around. H-Town started that one and has been said in that city for decades. Remember the R&B group, H-Town? Yeah, they came out in the very early 90's and were from Houston. Atlanta was known as ATL around then. They just recently got on the [letter]-town thing.

Houston rap beats up Atlanta rap. Mike Jones, some of Paul Wall and the other mainstream stuff are horrible, but Trae, Billy Cook, Cham, and a whole shit load of DJ's are good.

[kardon]

:haha:
lmao. Sorry to inform you, but it's the other way around. H-Town started that one and has been said in that city for decades. Remember the R&B group, H-Town? Yeah, they came out in the very early 90's and were from Houston. Atlanta was known as ATL around then. They just recently got on the [letter]-town thing.

OH LORD...let me guess, texasboi and trae will make comments to pump up any city in Texas. Remember, the Braves hat has a HUGE "A" on it. And I do believe that hat with the letter A on it sells in the top 5 of all baseball hats. People have been knowing Atlanta as the ATL or the "A" for a long time. Who knows who was first... i was enjoying the thread until you posted...

[sprtsluvr8]

Anyway....Southern City Nicknames for $200 please Alex.

[Trae]

OH LORD...let me guess, texasboi and trae will make comments to pump up any city in Texas. Remember, the Braves hat has a HUGE "A" on it. And I do believe that hat with the letter A on it sells in the top 5 of all baseball hats. People have been knowing Atlanta as the ATL or the "A" for a long time. Who knows who was first... i was enjoying the thread until you posted...

The Houston Astros hat (present and throwback), as well as the throwback jersey are among the best selling in the MLB.

I didn't even mean for this to come out of this thread. It is really a dumb argument about who came first. Can't the south all get along?

[TexasBoi]

OH LORD...let me guess, texasboi and trae will make comments to pump up any city in Texas. Remember, the Braves hat has a HUGE "A" on it. And I do believe that hat with the letter A on it sells in the top 5 of all baseball hats. People have been knowing Atlanta as the ATL or the "A" for a long time. Who knows who was first... i was enjoying the thread until you posted...

Whoa.... Slow down bruh. I did not pump up of the city of Houston nor did I intend to. I commented on a post I disagreed with. Sorry if you took offense to it. And I know the history of the "A" and ATL thing as you basically agreed with my post.

[NFO]

Jacksonville, Florida:

The First Coast
Gateway to Florida
The Bold New City of The South
River City
City of Bridges
City of Neighborhoods
Jax
Home of Southern Rock
Murder Capital of Florida
J'ville
Jack-town
Duval
Bang'em Ville
Trillville
da 904
da Ville
Cowford
Jack-&-Kill


Interesting list, I've used of most of them. Cowford is the oldest but J'ville is what I hear the most.

As a graduate of Harvard on the St.John's(UNF),
may I add Ospreytown to that list.:cheers:

[dbranham]

Atlanta - Catlanta (an apt allusion to the Kentucky Wildcats' veritable dominance of the SEC Tourney, which takes place annually at the Georgia Dome)

Miami - Millionaire's Paradise (I'll be it's a tough place to be poor)

Raleigh - The City of Oaks or RRRRRRRAWLAY!
Can't refer to Raleigh by it's airport code (RDU) b/c that's how Raleigh folks actually refer to the airport, itself. Would be confusing.

[Spartan]

Spartanburg - Sparkle City

...and practically every city that is a -ville: 'vegas' - G-vegas, Nashvegas, etc.


Spartanburg's official nickname is The Hub City. Sparkle City is much more popular though.

[CottonCity251]

Mobile:
Azalea City
Cotton City
City of Five Flags
MOB
Mob-Town
Paris of the South
Port City

[Atomic Glee]

Fort Worth:

"Cowtown" - The one most people know, and my least favorite. Came about due to Fort Worth's massive cattle industry many moons ago.

"Panther City" - My favorite. A long time ago, back before the railroad came to Fort Worth, one of the Dallas papers ran a story saying that a panther wandered into Fort Worth and fell asleep, and because the town was so boring nothing stirred him from his sleep. Fort Worth, with its usual great attitude, turned the name around into a compliment. The railroad came and the city boomed, and the Panther became a favorite Fort Worth symbol. Several classic downtown Fort Worth buildings feature panthers in their architecture, we have a couple of sleeping panther sculptures and fountains downtown, and our minor league baseball team, the Fort Worth Cats, uses a sleepy-eyed panther as their mascot.

I took this shot of the panther fountain in Hyde Park in downtown. It's right next to the Fort Worth Flatiron building from 1907 (not shown) which features panther heads ringing its base:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/359272699_c83bcb5c8e_o.jpg