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I am not from the Deep South and I am certain that you are not from Delaware....
I'm not from Delaware, but my parents live there and I've lived there from roughly 2002 to 2009. I consider it my home and for Thanksgiving, I'll be "going home" to Delaware. I usually say I'm from Delaware at this point.
I just don't understand why this kid is so adament about defending the "southernness" of Maryland. The state has a few isolated southern traits......thats all. People in southern Illinois have a drawl, people in southern Indiana have a slight accent, people in Bakersfield, CA still have a southern drawl because of early immigration, people in central PA like sweet tea, and some folk out in Kansas play bluegrass. These are all southern(ish) traits...they do NOT make the area itself southern.
To reiterate: Maryland and Delaware may have a few southern traits...however these traits exist primarily because of their proximity to the South. Maryland, Delaware, and DC fit very well into the geographic idenitifier "Mid Atlantic" which is a blend of Northern and Southern cultures.
I just don't understand why this kid is so adament about defending the "southernness" of Maryland. The state has a few isolated southern traits......thats all. People in southern Illinois have a drawl, people in southern Indiana have a slight accent, people in Bakersfield, CA still have a southern drawl because of early immigration, people in central PA like sweet tea, and some folk out in Kansas play bluegrass. These are all southern(ish) traits...they do NOT make the area itself southern.
To reiterate: Maryland and Delaware may have a few southern traits...however these traits exist primarily because of their proximity to the South. Maryland, Delaware, and DC fit very well into the geographic idenitifier "Mid Atlantic" which is a blend of Northern and Southern cultures.
Thank you. I'm not sure why $mk is losing his mind, but at least there are some sensible people in this thread.
Why would someone take it as an insult to say Maryland and Delaware aren't southern?
Thank you. I'm not sure why $mk is losing his mind, but at least there are some sensible people in this thread.
Why would someone take it as an insult to say Maryland and Delaware aren't southern?
I don't know either. $mk seems to take some kind of offense to Maryland or Delaware being deemed anything but southern. My best guess is that he/she has some kind of weird fixation on the south and wants, ever so desperately, to be a resident of it.
Something like half of Delaware's population is in the Philly metro area.......don't see how anyone could consider that southern. Even in the southern end of Delaware, Rehoboth Beach and Bethany Beach feel much more similar to the Jersey Shore than to say, The Outer Banks or Hilton Head...not to mention most of the people who vacation there are from Pennsylvania.
Here is just about as good as any map of the "boundaries" of the South (north to south, east to west), that I have ever seen. It is based upon where "Southern American English" is spoken.
No it's not. It's a restaurant: a Raleigh "institution" that is known for its sustainable and vegetarian fare (though meat lovers can find something on the menu as well).
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