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According to Wikipedia, the main mid atlantic states are northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, & New Jersey, but they don't include NY
But again - according to the Census the Mid-Atlantic is only NY, NJ, and PA and is part of the larger Northeast along with New England.
There are many ways to define Mid-Atlantic. Some definitions put it as far south as North Carolina and as far west as West Virginia. Some don't include NY, NJ, or PA at all and put it as DE/MD down to NC or even just to VA. And people on city-data define regions however they want, which is why I take what people say here with a grain of salt.
You (collective you, not literally you) can try to tell me all you want that my state is not Northeastern… but it is. It just is. Sorry if you don't feel it is, or you don't want it to be… but it is.
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I think New Haven is where New England begins once you get past the I-95/I-91 interchange heading north.
Heading south on I-95, Fairfield County, CT/ Westchester/NYC/Long Island/North Jersey to me is the Tri-State area which is really its own entity as a region.
I feel I've really transitioned into the Mid Atlantic at the Delaware Bridge.
The South starts getting palpable transitions around Petersburg, VA.
Heading much further South on I-95 right around Jupiter, FL seems to be a noticeable transition into South Florida, which to me is also an entirely different entity.
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But again - according to the Census the Mid-Atlantic is only NY, NJ, and PA and is part of the larger Northeast along with New England.
There are many ways to define Mid-Atlantic. Some definitions put it as far south as North Carolina and as far west as West Virginia. Some don't include NY, NJ, or PA at all and put it as DE/MD down to NC or even just to VA. And people on city-data define regions however they want, which is why I take what people say here with a grain of salt.
You (collective you, not literally you) can try to tell me all you want that my state is not Northeastern… but it is. It just is. Sorry if you don't feel it is, or you don't want it to be… but it is.
You can't say that it is all opinion & everyone has different boundary lines, but that in the end your opinion is right haha. I like what the other poster said, what is considered to be midatlantic continues to move south. VA never used to be considered mid atlantic until the last 20-30 years. New York was always considered to be mid atlantic until the last 40 or so years. No one I know from Jersey says they are not easterners, & I think my Bostonian friends would laugh if they heard a Jersey person say that
You can't say that it is all opinion & everyone has different boundary lines, but that in the end your opinion is right haha. I like what the other poster said, what is considered to be midatlantic continues to move south. VA never used to be considered mid atlantic until the last 20-30 years. New York was always considered to be mid atlantic until the last 40 or so years. No one I know from Jersey says they are not easterners, & I think my Bostonian friends would laugh if they heard a Jersey person say that
"New Jersey is Northeastern" is not an opinion. Definitions on Mid-Atlantic are usually opinions because they are ever-changing and contested, unless you want to follow the Census's definition but who wants to do that?
Did you mean to say "not easterners" or "northeasterners"? If it was supposed to say "northeasterners," you're lying because people from NJ consider ourselves to be from a Northeastern state and if a Bostonian laughs at that, well that would be their problem.
But again - according to the Census the Mid-Atlantic is only NY, NJ, and PA and is part of the larger Northeast along with New England.
There are many ways to define Mid-Atlantic. Some definitions put it as far south as North Carolina and as far west as West Virginia. Some don't include NY, NJ, or PA at all and put it as DE/MD down to NC or even just to VA. And people on city-data define regions however they want, which is why I take what people say here with a grain of salt.
You (collective you, not literally you) can try to tell me all you want that my state is not Northeastern… but it is. It just is. Sorry if you don't feel it is, or you don't want it to be… but it is.
The Census definition is probably the historic definition. We have talked about this on other threads and I have found evidence that even in the later 1800s, even Maryland was usually not considered Mid-Atlantic or Northeast. Maryland was still southern.
But times change. At some point, people in Maryland began to identify more with their northern Mid-Atlantic neighbors then their traditional Southern neighbors. After that came transplants moving into Virginia. Maybe next it will be North Carolina.
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Taking a ride down I-95
New Haven is where New England begins once you get past the I-95/I-91 interchange heading north.
Heading south on I-95, Fairfield County/Westchester/NYC/Long Island/North Jersey to me is the Tri-State area which is really its own entity as a region.
I feel I've really transitioned into the Mid Atlantic at the Delaware Bridge.
The South starts getting palpable transitions around Petersburg, VA.
Heading much further south on I-95 right around Jupiter, FL seems to be a noticeable transition into South Florida, which to me is also an entirely different entity
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