Do people in Maryland consider themselves North, Southern, or in Between? (Baltimore: restaurants, dangerous)

[vivo]

Originally Posted by jonny d

i live in montgumey county and all i had to do was join a hunting club and i gained a noticible country accent. iv always considered md a southern state and im proud to represent the dixie. the only thing is that we got some really rich northerners that are moving in and destroying all the land, the thing that really burns me is wen they tear down a nice family house and build a mega mansion when they only have a family of 3, they buy there mercedes and tear around town thinking that they own the road, and theyre attitude sucks, they feel as if they are entitled to everything. does this **** anyone else off?????or am i the only person

isn't this whole mcmansion thing just a countrywide thing? I guess more so with the upper-middle class. is the rich stuck up thing more pronounced with rich northeasterners than rich southerners? apparently ny transplants here in orange co complain about the materialistic snobby attitudes here. so i'd say never come to live here.
well maybe come here but read up on it first.

[vasinger]

Originally Posted by 53rdSEDCBOY

Maryland is too far north to be southern...please why cant we all see that...just because there are farms in the state mean absolutley nothing beacuse once u leave NYC the state is very rural like PA and NJ has rural parts...MD is divided into 2 sides BMORE and DC and neither one of these are southern cities...

I wish the census bureau would open there eyes and stop this maddnesss!!!!!!

Well, if you're only thinking about the Deep South, then thats one thing. But the Southern culture is not just limited to the Deep Deep South.

Maryland is not that far North in terms of how it is related to states like Washington State or Montana.

And it is below the Mason Dixon line.

I'm from Virginia and its a very Southern state. D.C. was a Southern city in years past. Its more northern now.

Because Maryland is on the northern edge of Dixie, I would say it must be a little bit of both.

[Scriv]

This person from Maryland considers himself overtaxed, and quickly becoming the minority race in Maryland...and can't wait to retire and LEAVE!

[Billiam]

so you're racist and only like white people? WOW. hurry up and retire, i really dont want you in my state

[NoHometoCallMyOwn]

Originally Posted by Scriv

This person from Maryland considers himself overtaxed, and quickly becoming the minority race in Maryland...and can't wait to retire and LEAVE!

You definitely don't want to go to parts of the South to retire then. Unless you go to some regions of the mid-south, perhaps.

[JDinBalt]

Originally Posted by vivo

isn't this whole mcmansion thing just a countrywide thing? I guess more so with the upper-middle class. is the rich stuck up thing more pronounced with rich northeasterners than rich southerners? apparently ny transplants here in orange co complain about the materialistic snobby attitudes here. so i'd say never come to live here.
well maybe come here but read up on it first.

It's definitely a countrywide thing, not just a Northern thing. A few years back I visited my Bawlmer-born cousin and his Tarheel wife in Augusta, GA. They lived in another one of those McMansion-type communities. And it certainly wasn't terra yankee, because most of the folks I met in the neighborhood were definitely locals. They weren't nasty people or anything, but the cookie cutter community thing is definitely a nationwide phenomenon.

As an aside, here's one comical thing my cousin told me during that visit: even though he lives in Augusta, he commutes into South Carolina for work. He tells me that, of course, they refer to him as a Yankee. But the bizarre thing was that, apparently, they considered his wife to be one, too, even though she was born and raised in the South her whole life (New Bern, Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta). He said it's because she's from North, not South, Carolina (New Bern to be exact, birthplace of Pepsi Cola). He then mentioned something that just made me chuckle. To paraphrase: "There's a reason why they call it North Carolina." I guess Palmetto Staters believe the Mason-Dixon Line is their state border!

[JDinBalt]

Originally Posted by Billiam

so you're racist and only like white people? WOW. hurry up and retire, i really dont want you in my state

Yup, if that fella is worried about his race becoming a minority one, I can only imagine how much worse members of actual minorities must feel!

[Jay F]

Maryland is a Northern state all the way. Politically it's very Democrat. Every Northeastern state with no exceptions is a blue state while every Southern state is a Red state. Maryland (and Delaware) can not vote Dem and be considered part of the South. Politically, Maryland has more in common with Massachusetts than Virginia.

Didn't Maryland recently ban smoking in bars? Every Northeastern state (except Pennsylvania) bans smoking in bars while no Southern state has a statewide ban (except for Delaware, like Maryland is considered the South by the U.S census but in reality is culturally totally Northeastern). Southerners value freedom,while Northeasterners cherish the nanny state..Maryland loves that nanny state.

How about capital punishment? Southeners believe in justice. Virginia is a true Southern state because they rank #2 in executions behind Texas. Maryland on the other hand has only executed 5 killers since 1976. Southerners feel compassion for crime victims while people in Northern states such as Maryland feel love and compassion towards the violent criminals. Southerners think the violent criminal is barbaric while Northerners think that punishing the violent criminal is uncivilized. Why do you think everyone wanted the 2002 sniper shooters tried in Virginia and not Maryland? It's because Virginia is anti-criminal and willing to give the death penalty while Maryland, like all Northern states, is soft on crime.

[danwxman]

Originally Posted by Scriv

This person from Maryland considers himself overtaxed, and quickly becoming the minority race in Maryland...and can't wait to retire and LEAVE!

Ew, please don't move to Pennsylvania...there are too many of your types moving here.

[jessiica]

mid-atlantic FTW