The District is ‘hip’ in more than simply politics, as it was recently ranked one of America’s most ‘hipster’ regions, BuzzFeed writes.

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The website ranked top searches for ‘hipster’ by city. The District came out sixth, with Minnesota leading, and New York, home to Williamsburg and the oft-portrayed hipster, falling in second.

The news comes without surprise, considering a night out in the H Street corridor means hipsters clad in too-tight jeans, brogues, and plaid–round glasses shielding their postmodern disdain. Even D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is jumping on the hipster bike.

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A Hipster is: One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2 percent body fat.