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Winchester is in Virginia, so Winchester is not a Northeastern city. Anything south of Maryland is Southeastern.
Interesting how you shifted your logic here. I've seen you say numerous times that Maryland is a northeastern state BECAUSE it is of the same latitude as the southern half of NJ. Yet here you ignore this logic and say that it can't be northeastern because it is in Virginia despite their proximity.
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So this means at one time, Annapolis, MD, Baltimore, MD and Easton, MD are southern, but Georgetown, DE, Dover, DE, Cape May, NJ and Atlantic City, NJ are northern despite all of those cities being located at the same latitude?
Obviously anyone here who has actually ben to Winchester knows it is culturally southern and markedly different from Maryland or Delaware. It's a laughable idea.
Then why in most dialect maps, they place Baltimore in the same region as Philadelphia?
Yeah Philly has Southern elements to it, unlike Balmer which is just Southern. Philly's sound is more NE with a little bit of South in it. Pittsburgh also has a little bit of South in it, too, yet not even I (the guy who people claim that thinks Pittsburgh is Southern) will say Pittsburgh is in the South. It's Northeastern geographically, but it's close to the border.
Look, Maryland is a transition state at best. Technically, it's a border state. But what exactly makes it fully Northeastern? Is it the cultural hodge podge caused by out of state transplants that dilute the Southern culture thus making it less Southern and more of nothing? Because if we use the culture argument and the linguistic argument, Maryland is quickly turning into neither South nor anything else. The diluted Maryland dialect is sounding more like Standard American than the Northeastern dialects. Do I think that Maryland has Northeastern elements to it? Yes. Just like how Missouri has Midwestern elements to it. Just like how parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois have Southern elements to them. Such is what happens with border states. Doesn't mean that Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are in the South. I have news for you, linguistic regions overlap and no state near a border has pure elements of one dialect. In some parts of Chicago people say y'all. Doesn't make us Southern. Our dialect is still Midwestern even if some elements are retained from migration patterns. Kind of how Maryland's dialect is still Southern despite it being near a transition zone.
Yeah Philly has Southern elements to it, unlike Balmer which is just Southern. Philly's sound is more NE with a little bit of South in it. Pittsburgh also has a little bit of South in it, too, yet not even I (the guy who people claim that thinks Pittsburgh is Southern) will say Pittsburgh is in the South. It's Northeastern geographically, but it's close to the border.
Look, Maryland is a transition state at best. Technically, it's a border state. But what exactly makes it fully Northeastern? Is it the cultural hodge podge caused by out of state transplants that dilute the Southern culture thus making it less Southern and more of nothing? Because if we use the culture argument and the linguistic argument, Maryland is quickly turning into neither South nor anything else. The diluted Maryland dialect is sounding more like Standard American than the Northeastern dialects. Do I think that Maryland has Northeastern elements to it? Yes. Just like how Missouri has Midwestern elements to it. Just like how parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois have Southern elements to them. Such is what happens with border states. Doesn't mean that Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are in the South. I have news for you, linguistic regions overlap and no state near a border has pure elements of one dialect. In some parts of Chicago people say y'all. Doesn't make us Southern. Our dialect is still Midwestern even if some elements are retained from migration patterns. Kind of how Maryland's dialect is still Southern despite it being near a transition zone.
No offense but you have no clue what you are talking about. Maryland is almost entirely northern speech shared with Philadelphia, southern Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It sounds like you are very unfamiliar with the area and just reading things online. There really is nothing southern about Maryland (or Delaware) unless you go to the sparsely populated areas of the southern eastern shore, the accent and culture is definitively northern. The accent of Baltimore is extremely similar to that of Philadelphia and that is why linguists place them in the same group. I would love to say I am a southerner but it is just not true. Politically, culturally, linguistically, economically, and in terms of ancestry these places are absolutely the north. Do areas have southern influence? Abosultely. But the states are certainly northern, just like Illinois has parts that are rather southern but is generally northern state.
And let's take a look at religion:
And how about ancestry?
And Politics?
A poll conducted that asks which states are southern. Maryland came in at a whopping 6% just ahead of Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania..
Seriously Eddie, these are northeastern states. Perhaps not 100% pure, and perhaps there are parts with southern influence, but definitely northeastern to speak generally. That's why Delaware and Maryland are usually considered the northeast.
Yeah Philly has Southern elements to it, unlike Balmer which is just Southern. Philly's sound is more NE with a little bit of South in it. Pittsburgh also has a little bit of South in it, too, yet not even I (the guy who people claim that thinks Pittsburgh is Southern) will say Pittsburgh is in the South. It's Northeastern geographically, but it's close to the border.
Look, Maryland is a transition state at best. Technically, it's a border state. But what exactly makes it fully Northeastern? Is it the cultural hodge podge caused by out of state transplants that dilute the Southern culture thus making it less Southern and more of nothing? Because if we use the culture argument and the linguistic argument, Maryland is quickly turning into neither South nor anything else. The diluted Maryland dialect is sounding more like Standard American than the Northeastern dialects. Do I think that Maryland has Northeastern elements to it? Yes. Just like how Missouri has Midwestern elements to it. Just like how parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois have Southern elements to them. Such is what happens with border states. Doesn't mean that Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are in the South. I have news for you, linguistic regions overlap and no state near a border has pure elements of one dialect. In some parts of Chicago people say y'all. Doesn't make us Southern. Our dialect is still Midwestern even if some elements are retained from migration patterns. Kind of how Maryland's dialect is still Southern despite it being near a transition zone.
Being from the northeast doesn't matter really. Bragging about things that don't matter at the end of the day is kind of pointless.
No offense but you have no clue what you are talking about. Maryland is almost entirely northern speech shared with Philadelphia, southern Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It sounds like you are very unfamiliar with the area and just reading things online. There really is nothing southern about Maryland (or Delaware) unless you go to the sparsely populated areas of the southern eastern shore, the accent and culture is definitively northern. The accent of Baltimore is extremely similar to that of Philadelphia and that is why linguists place them in the same group. I would love to say I am a southerner but it is just not true. Politically, culturally, linguistically, economically, and in terms of ancestry these places are absolutely the north. Do areas have southern influence? Abosultely. But the states are certainly northern, just like Illinois has parts that are rather southern but is generally northern state.
And let's take a look at religion:
And how about ancestry?
And Politics?
A poll conducted that asks which states are southern. Maryland came in at a whopping 6% just ahead of Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania..
Seriously Eddie, these are northeastern states. Perhaps not 100% pure, and perhaps there are parts with southern influence, but definitely northeastern to speak generally. That's why Delaware and Maryland are usually considered the northeast.
How people "feel" about which states are north or which states are south are irrelevant. You can post as many people's feelings as you'd like just the same as you can post the feelings of people regarding WV or any other states. Maryland was a southern state and still is a southern state.
You can't just "change" a states status as "southern" because you feel that it's politics, religions, and accents have changed. The Mid-Atlantic region has been brought up many times... Mid-Atlantic you may be, northeastern you are not.
How people "feel" about which states are north or which states are south are irrelevant. You can post as many people's feelings as you'd like just the same as you can post the feelings of people regarding WV or any other states. Maryland was a southern state and still is a southern state.
You can't just "change" a states status as "southern" because you feel that it's politics, religions, and accents have changed. The Mid-Atlantic region has been brought up many times... Mid-Atlantic you may be, northeastern you are not.
The white Baltimore accent hasn't changed at all. I would like to know how black people in Baltimore spoke before the great migration, however.
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