What is your concept of the MidAtlantic region? (apartment complexes, stores)

[RunD1987]

I count Mid-Atlantic as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, D.C., and Virginia. Wikipedia counts West Virginia and New York. I cout New York part of New England.

[U146]

Originally Posted by ialmostforgot

Pennsylvania is a mostly rural state. Why then, is it so blue?

Maryland is a mostly metropolitan state population-wise, and so is New Jersey.

Virginia has been getting bluer. Is it because of all of those Marylanders moving there?

It's still far from being a blue state.

[U146]

Originally Posted by RunD1987

I count Mid-Atlantic as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, D.C., and Virginia. Wikipedia counts West Virginia and New York. I cout New York part of New England.

New York is NOT New England. Only NOVA is Mid-Atlantic. The rest of Virginia is Southern.

[RunD1987]

Originally Posted by U146

New York is NOT New England. Only NOVA is Mid-Atlantic. The rest of Virginia is Southern.

I say Southern New York. Rest I feel has its own identity and feel.

[U146]

Originally Posted by RunD1987

I say Southern New York. Rest I feel has its own identity and feel.

All of New York in its entirety is more like Pennsylvania than any state in New England.

[RunD1987]

Originally Posted by U146

All of New York in its entirety is more like Pennsylvania than any state in New England.

True it has this very rural feeling, influenced by the Dutch, farming, rails, and the Great Lakes to the West and Atlantic to the East.

[Chevalier de Saint-George]

Originally Posted by bawac34618

Mid-Atlantic is usually used to describe formerly Southern states that have seen a lot of northern transplants in recent years and therefore have had their Southernness diluted. Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware are the core of the region. Some consider NC to be also especially after they voted for Obama in 2008, but with recent developments there like HB2 it has gone into question. NJ, PA, and NY are unquestionably Northeastern in my opinion.

I'm more in this camp.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by U146

It's still far from being a blue state.

Not really; it's gone blue in the last two presidential elections and the state's continuing demographic shifts suggest that there's a good chance it will become a reliably blue state, or at the least a blue-leaning battleground state like PA.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by ialmostforgot

Pennsylvania is a mostly rural state. Why then, is it so blue?

Maryland is a mostly metropolitan state population-wise, and so is New Jersey.

Virginia has been getting bluer. Is it because of all of those Marylanders moving there?

How true is this? Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allenton, Scranton. I know I'm leaving out cities. But that's a good 9 million right there, no?

[ialmostforgot]

Originally Posted by Spade

How true is this? Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allenton, Scranton. I know I'm leaving out cities. But that's a good 9 million right there, no?

1. True
2. A lot of the little metros aren't very blue.
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