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Mid-Atlantic is NOT a subset of the Northeast. There are many times Virginia and North Carolina are considered Mid-Atlantic states. They are not in the Northeast. History should tell you that.
Maryland and Delaware are states in the transition zone. There are areas of both states that have more northern traits than southern. For Maryland that would include western Maryland and the Baltimore area. For Delaware that would include most places north of Dover. These states are odd in that you can go for one city to another and feel like you're in a completely different region. Traveling from Montgomery County into Prince George's County feels like going from the north to the south, traveling from Annapolis to the Eastern Shore feels like going from the north to the south, and traveling from Wilmington to Georgetown feels like going from the north into the south.
I get that feeling of a transition zone in West Virginia too. For instance, from Clarksburg northward to the northern panhandle, feels different from the southern parts of the state. The southern parts of West Virginia are very similiar to eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, where I have family. Northern West Virginia feels and looks more like eastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania. Although one thing is similar across the whole state of West Virginia (and most of PA, KY, VA, and TN): the ties to the Appalachian Mountains. But West Virginia is generally grouped with the southern states most of the time.
I have been to Baltimore...no way it has a southern feel at all. I knew a couple from Maryland that claimed it was the south, but they sounded very Northeastern (and yes, I know what Yankee talk sounds like cause I lived in Boston for a while) to my ear being from Oklahoma and Texas.
Mid-Atlantic is NOT a subset of the Northeast. There are many times Virginia and North Carolina are considered Mid-Atlantic states. They are not in the Northeast. History should tell you that.
Maryland and Delaware are states in the transition zone. There are areas of both states that have more northern traits than southern. For Maryland that would include western Maryland and the Baltimore area. For Delaware that would include most places north of Dover. These states are odd in that you can go for one city to another and feel like you're in a completely different region. Traveling from Montgomery County into Prince George's County feels like going from the north to the south, traveling from Annapolis to the Eastern Shore feels like going from the north to the south, and traveling from Wilmington to Georgetown feels like going from the north into the south.
I don't see why so many people from the region vehemently deny their history as being part of the South. I see many posts where people try to put DC in the same category as Philadelphia, NY, and Boston. DC is nothing like those three cities. As few as 20 or 30 years ago there would be no question about DC, Maryland and Delaware being southern.
Mid-Atlantic is NOT a subset of the Northeast. There are many times Virginia and North Carolina are considered Mid-Atlantic states. They are not in the Northeast. History should tell you that.
Maryland and Delaware are states in the transition zone. There are areas of both states that have more northern traits than southern. For Maryland that would include western Maryland and the Baltimore area. For Delaware that would include most places north of Dover. These states are odd in that you can go for one city to another and feel like you're in a completely different region. Traveling from Montgomery County into Prince George's County feels like going from the north to the south, traveling from Annapolis to the Eastern Shore feels like going from the north to the south, and traveling from Wilmington to Georgetown feels like going from the north into the south.
I don't see why so many people from the region vehemently deny their history as being part of the South. I see many posts where people try to put DC in the same category as Philadelphia, NY, and Boston. DC is nothing like those three cities. As few as 20 or 30 years ago there would be no question about DC, Maryland and Delaware being southern.
North Carolina a Mid-Atlantic state? Who has EVER said that?
On I-95, there's a bump in the road, somewhere around Fredericksburg, Virginia. If you're headed north the road gets smooth, and suddenly those tall lights on the highway appear. That's where the north starts.
It is a very easy question that most people don't know.
Maryland is a southern state due to the fact that it is south of the Mason Dixon line. Del. is as well but always sided with the North during the Civil War. Maryland was the FIRST State to fall to the
North during the Civil War
Being from St. Mary's County, I completely understand why you would think its southern, becasue you're from a southern County in Maryland. Im from a northern County in Maryland. Even way back in the civil war, familes and friends were divided on the subject of who they were with. BTW, the transition zone statement is very right actually (a few pages back)
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Maryland is a Southern state
