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DC is the oddball because it is a planned city, planned by the gov't to be the nations capital, and also many years after the other cities had already been relevant.
It's completely different from the way the other cities "came up." It's much younger.
That would explain to me why its appearance is a bit different.
Wilmington is part of Philadelphia metropolitan area. If that's not northern, I don't know what is.
Wilmington is southern, the census says Wilmington and Delaware is southern so its southern, I don't care if it was apart of a NYC-Philly CSA, its still southern Wilmington gets no special treatment.
If Maryland is a southern state, than so is Delaware.
If anyone has a problem with Wilmington being southern I'd ask that they take their issue up with the United States Federal Government.
It might be my own bias but I feel the DC/Maryland is the South or alteast hybrids of the South/Northeast...Whom am I to tell the government/census different?
Last edited by brother's keeper; 01-25-2011 at 11:12 AM..
The U.S. Department of Transportation recognizes DC and MD as the Northeast Corridor. So you can go to any Federal agency and they will all have their own opinion. So the Census point is moot.
Once you get towards Baltimore and Washington D.C. there seems to be a north/south identity crisis, but that doesn't extend to Wilmington. Wilmington is entirely too influenced by the Philadelphia tri-state, Phila news, media, sports to have this crisis.
If you were to walk around Wilmington and ask people if they were southern, you would probably get a resounding "huh?" When you can drive an hour and a half south to the New Jersey shore, and see Philadelphia's skyline from your city, being called southern doesn't faze you at all. It just doesn't compute.
So, like I was saying, you can call Wilmington southern all you want - it's not a sore nerve like it seems to be in D.C. and Maryland.
Many days I wish we were in the south- as this miserable Philly attitude has permeated this entire county.
dcfinest.. dont argue with these know-it-alls, md & dc are the dirty south
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