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View Poll Results: Are these 11 cities each North or South?
Kansas City, Mo. - It's in the North 108 67.92%
Kansas City, Mo. - It's in the South 23 14.47%
Saint Louis - It's in the North 110 69.18%
Saint Louis - It's in the South 25 15.72%
Cairo, Illinois - It's in the North 59 37.11%
Cairo, Illinois - It's in the South 66 41.51%
Louisville - It's in the North 18 11.32%
Louisville - It's in the South 125 78.62%
Cincinnati - It's in the North 118 74.21%
Cincinnati - It's in the South 18 11.32%
Charleston, West Virginia - It's in the North 21 13.21%
Charleston, West Virginia - It's in the South 115 72.33%
Pittsburgh - It's in the North 138 86.79%
Pittsburgh - It's in the South 1 0.63%
Northern Virginia - It's in the North 81 50.94%
Northern Virginia - It's in the South 61 38.36%
Washington, D.C. - It's in the North 109 68.55%
Washington, D.C. - It's in the South 38 23.90%
Baltimore - It's in the North 113 71.07%
Baltimore - It's in the South 30 18.87%
Wilmington, Delaware - It's in the North 122 76.73%
Wilmington, Delaware - It's in the South 9 5.66%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 159. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-18-2018, 08:59 PM
 
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Hardiness zones/ agriculture are why that political boundary was drawn where it was. MD and DC are southern geographically.
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Old 05-18-2018, 11:17 PM
 
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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Even in areas of southern states where it doesn't seem "southern" there are still lingering aspects in attitude and habits.

That map is interesting. I could have sworn they offered biscuits here in NY at one point. Maybe as a promotion that didn't catch?
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Old 05-18-2018, 11:49 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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That map is interesting. I could have sworn they offered biscuits here in NY at one point. Maybe as a promotion that didn't catch?

Hi Cookie, I don't know how McDonald's came up with their map, but the local Tudor's Biscuits is one of the most popular restaurant chains in WV, so I think McDonald's offered biscuits there to compete with Tudor's. I think there's a Tudor's in Weirton.
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Old 05-20-2018, 09:49 PM
 
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Even in areas of southern states where it doesn't seem "southern" there are still lingering aspects in attitude and habits.

Wonder why the FL panhandle doesn't get biscuits? Southern culture there, at least away from the tourist areas of the Gulf Coast.
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Old 05-21-2018, 12:59 AM
 
Location: DM[V] - Northern Virginia
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Political boundaries are real socioeconomic divides you know.
Just not purely geographic ones. The southern part of New Jersey is due east of DC.

But anyway, take a look at the poll results.
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Old 05-21-2018, 12:59 AM
 
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I always thought if the states fought for the Union then they are North and Confederacy, South. Would the Mason Dixon line also be a divide. Texas would unique, South, South,
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Old 05-21-2018, 04:38 AM
 
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I always thought if the states fought for the Union then they are North and Confederacy, South.
History was never that tidy. Most people would say that Kentucky is southern state, but it was officially a part of the Union during the Civil War. Most people would say that Missouri is a northern state, but some parts of it actually fought for the Confederacy. Both states were claimed by Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. There have been many, many arguments on these boards about where to draw the modern day boundaries between the North and the South.
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Old 05-21-2018, 07:28 AM
 
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I did see a great series called Frontiersmen, I think on National Geo ,which showed the great Daniel Boone exploring the Kentucky wilderness, that nailed it as a southern state. I have always thought Kentucky with its Derby, same as British racing Derby, had a British Isles feel as with much of the South plus copious tea drinking ( as Britain and Ireland) Ohio though even as a Brit would be clear Northern . There is a blurred border by the look of it
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Old 05-21-2018, 07:44 AM
 
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I did see a great series called Frontiersmen, I think on National Geo ,which showed the great Daniel Boone exploring the Kentucky wilderness, that nailed it as a southern state. I have always thought Kentucky with its Derby, same as British racing Derby, had a British Isles feel as with much of the South plus copious tea drinking ( as Britain and Ireland) Ohio though even as a Brit would be clear Northern . There is a blurred border by the look of it
Southern States were more apt to embrace The British system from their History ex. A Lord Founded Maryland and Georgia while most of the North were various religious refugees from England (kinda Maryland too)
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Old 05-21-2018, 08:59 AM
 
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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Southern States were more apt to embrace The British system from their History ex. A Lord Founded Maryland and Georgia while most of the North were various religious refugees from England (kinda Maryland too)
True! Likewise, arguably the Dutch ultimately had more influence over PA, NY and Jersey than the English soon afterward.

Even after the limeys renamed New Amsterdam. haha
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