Do you consider Maryland to be a Southeastern State? (Baltimore: move to, design)

[soug]

One of the lingering reminders to me that Maryland is kinda-sorta but not really in the South is the fact that the University of Maryland plays in the ACC.

[gwillyfromphilly]

Originally Posted by soug

One of the lingering reminders to me that Maryland is kinda-sorta but not really in the South is the fact that the University of Maryland plays in the ACC.

But so does Boston College.

[BigCityDreamer]

Originally Posted by LauraC

Being the jackass New Yorker I was, when I got a job in DC and had to choose between Virginia and Maryland, I chose Maryland because "Virginia is the South - I'm not moving there" and Maryland wasn't, culturally speaking. Now I live in Tennessee, a place I chose because I really like southern culture...and I'm on my way to my second vacation in MD this year. MD, by the way, is still not the South, culturally-speaking. But, I sure love my drive through beautiful western Virginia...northern Virgina (UGH), not at all. I consider Maryland to be a mid-Atlantic state.

Northern Virginia is only slightly more southern-feeling than the Maryland suburbs of D.C. Most people would hardly notice the difference.

[BigCityDreamer]

Personally, in all my years living in the D.C. area, I have never heard anyone call Maryland southern or southeastern. I didn't even know the issue was debated much until I came to C-D.

In every way that matters to most people, Maryland is more like the other northeast states.

[kingchef]

yes, i consider it a part of the south east, and, i believe the census bureau and the department of the interior considers it so.

[soug]

Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly

But so does Boston College.

I know haha, but our biggest rivalries are with Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, etc. BC is the outlier, and the only one (besides Maryland) that isn't in the South.


From my experience, the Baltimore-Washington area is pretty much just standard northeastern suburbia. Southern Maryland, the Eastern Shore, and Western Maryland still exhibit a little bit of Southerness, not just for being rural, but also culturally, though not really that much. If I had to pick one, I would say MD is without a doubt part of the North.

[BigCityDreamer]

Maryland votes more liberal than even New Jersey and Connecticut. To label such a state southeastern really stretches credibility.

[•|~]

Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly

But so does Boston College.

Bad move to make a point on. The difference between BC and UMD is simple: UMD is a charter member of the ACC (along with duke, unc, ncsu, wf, clemson, and south carolina) back in 1953. Before the ACC, UMD was a charter member of the SoCon back in 1921.

You do have George Washington (A10) and American University (Patriot League). The obvious is GU, which is a Big East charter member from 1979. Georgetown was part of the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference before the Big East and that was mostly a Northeastern conference. BC like Georgetown are charter members of a Northeastern conference.

To answer the question, Maryland isn't Southeastern like Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by BigCityDreamer

Personally, in all my years living in the D.C. area, I have never heard anyone call Maryland southern or southeastern. I didn't even know the issue was debated much until I came to C-D.

In every way that matters to most people, Maryland is more like the other northeast states.

Opinions which will never over shadow the FACT that Maryland is a Southern State.........

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by BigCityDreamer

Maryland votes more liberal than even New Jersey and Connecticut. To label such a state southeastern really stretches credibility.

And for people from the deep south denying Maryland for being a Southern State is done so out of hatred......