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To most people, the Northeast is the broader term for the Mid-Atlantic and New England combined. From Virginia up to Maine is the Northeast. Virginia to New York is Mid-Atlantic. Connecticut to Main is New England. WV is a toss-up since the Eastern Panhandle is part of the DC-Baltimore CSA, but the rest of the state is clearly more Midwestern, at least IMO.
Most people don't throw VA in with the Northeast (Confederate state...not southern?) but other than that I agree.
Mid-Atlantic is part of the northeast. I would take it over CA personally simply because I like the east-coast and not a big fan of the west.
People lets realize the mid-Atlantic consists of more than just NYC, PHL, BAL, DC. There are so many either small towns or mid size cities that make up the mid-Atlantic.
Trenton
Allentown
Harrisburg
Annapolis
Ocean City, MD
Wilmington
Dover
Rehoboth Beach
Atlantic City
etc
Are each notable towns in the Mid-Atlantic, but it seems these threads only continue to focus on the 4 major urban centers.
Well, the OP specifically focused on that.
I think what might be a more equitable comparison would be New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania to California.
Nothing northeastern about Virginia at all. Its where the Upper-South, Appalachia, Atlantic South, Piedmont, and Mid Atlantic collide.
Despite all of the transplants to NOVA over the past 50 years, it still holds onto its southern roots in some spots, but its very much so the Mid-Atlantic, but its nothing like Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, etc.
I think what might be a more equitable comparison would be New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania to California.
Well it is my general understanding that a lot of those cities listed by the resident09 were already indirectly covered in this comparison. I did make this a comparison of the southern end of the Northeast Megalopolis from Greater New York to Greater Washington D.C. and I am 100% positive that I also made sure to mention that Harrisburg is included in this comparison as well (went out of my way to do that in the OP by specifically listing it), so that the population of California and this carved out chain links of large metropolises in the southern half of the Northeast Corridor were identical in overall size. Also if you look at places like Trenton and Allentown, for example, they're already covered since they're in Greater New York (per census bureau). Areas like Atlantic City, Wilmington, and Dover are in Greater Philadelphia already. Annapolis is in Greater Baltimore and also in the much larger and more expanded region, the Greater Washington DC-Baltimore region.
Of all of those places, probably Ocean City, MD is the only actual standalone town on that list. All the others are just cogs and/or key cogs in a significantly more complex and larger area centered on much larger cities.
So yeah, all of those towns are already integral in this comparison and have been since the OP was established. Save for maybe Ocean City, MD. This is a different scenario than the likes of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, or the Monterey Bay Area -- all of these smalltowns are standalones, the key cogs of their own metropolitan areas with no official affiliation with a larger metropolis/expanded metro-region. Context proves that it is vital in everything honestly.
Last edited by Trafalgar Law; 03-09-2017 at 04:38 PM..
Nope. Let me clarify. I think you could DAW a line from Cumberland, MD to New Bern, NC, and everything west or south of it (Raleigh, Roanoke, Lynchburg) is Southern, wheras everything north or east of it (NoVa, Richmond, Hampton Roads) is Northeastern.
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