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

[bluecountry]

No way is Maryland the north.

I would say Northern VA and MD are the mid Atlantic and if not than a scaled version of the south.

West MD is Applachia.

[sundaze]

Terrapin I think you would like North Carolina or Texas, but think again about Nevada if your thoughts are on the Las Vegas area. It is UNBEARABLY hot in the summer. Yes, it is a dry heat, but still miserable. I am not sure what you want for morals but Nevada is the one state with legal prostitution.
As to your point about the "real America," I think the beauty of America is that it is so diverse. Montogomery County IS the real America, so is Texas, Utah, Florida, Massachussets, Minnesota, California, Alaska, Hawaii, etc. So many places, so many people, but one country.
UNITED WE STAND

On country music. Some people like it, some don't. Those who don't probably don't listen to it or know its singers. I don't care for most of it but I have no problem with people who like it. I don't think you can read a lot into people's musical tastes, trust me there are classical music stations in the deep south.

[vasinger]

Maryland is half in the Mid-Atlantic and half in the South-Atlantic.

There's a world of difference between Baltibore and Southern Maryland.
I think that many people would probably argue Maryland as a northern state only because its gotton very liberal in the last 20 years and its a blue state (probably purple is more accurate) and has a large influx of people from the northeast.

Northern Virginia while on lattitude with central Maryland has been affected but not quite the same way as Maryland has. I know that real Marylanders are Southerners in my book- even if they are on the northern edge of Dixie.

[NYMTman]

Just drive along I-95 through Baltimore. Once you hit the city limits, factories, cranes, and warehouses dot the landscape. It's the clearly the rust belt.

The thing is that people, like Terripan, automatically associate rudeness and soforth with the North when this is not true at all. Just look at a rust belt city like Cleveland, Pittsburg, or Detroit. Then look at Baltimore. Is there really a significant difference? Even your "rude" cities like New York and Boston don't have rude natives - it's the transplants from California or god knows where else that are the rude ones. New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, whatever - all blue collar, friendly towns at the end of the day. Yes, even my native New York is ultimately a blue collar town once you look past the transplant, yuppie neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Soho

[NYMTman]

And obviously with the above post I was talking generally - there are some transplants that are fine and some NYC natives that are twits

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by vasinger

Maryland is half in the Mid-Atlantic and half in the South-Atlantic.

There's a world of difference between Baltibore and Southern Maryland.
I think that many people would probably argue Maryland as a northern state only because its gotton very liberal in the last 20 years and its a blue state (probably purple is more accurate) and has a large influx of people from the northeast.

Northern Virginia while on lattitude with central Maryland has been affected but not quite the same way as Maryland has. I know that real Marylanders are Southerners in my book- even if they are on the northern edge of Dixie.

basically what youre saying is that people from MD with more of a northern characteristics oposed to southern makes them not true Marylanders, even if they were born and lived in Md for their entire life

Also, did you spell "Baltibore" on purpose saying its boring, or was that just a typo

[vasinger]

Originally Posted by NYMTman

Just drive along I-95 through Baltimore. Once you hit the city limits, factories, cranes, and warehouses dot the landscape. It's the clearly the rust belt.

The thing is that people, like Terripan, automatically associate rudeness and soforth with the North when this is not true at all. Just look at a rust belt city like Cleveland, Pittsburg, or Detroit. Then look at Baltimore. Is there really a significant difference? Even your "rude" cities like New York and Boston don't have rude natives - it's the transplants from California or god knows where else that are the rude ones. New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, whatever - all blue collar, friendly towns at the end of the day. Yes, even my native New York is ultimately a blue collar town once you look past the transplant, yuppie neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Soho

Eh. I wouldn't say rustbelt. Its not quite cold enough.

Rust belt needs to have lots lots of snow most of the year round and cars that look rusty.

But I do agree Baltimore is more blue collar. Its not quite like Richmond.

[vasinger]

Originally Posted by m_r2z0

basically what youre saying is that people from MD with more of a northern characteristics oposed to southern makes them not true Marylanders, even if they were born and lived in Md for their entire life

Also, did you spell "Baltibore" on purpose saying its boring, or was that just a typo

Um, not exactly. Im saying certain areas of Maryland are more northern than southern. But the ones I know from Maryland who consider themselves Southern and have been there a long time, I consider Southern as well

Maryland has a lot of people who moved there in recent years from further north, so I make that distinction.

I didn't mean to say Baltibore, lol. I guess I was tired.

[Tom Lennox 70]

LOL, speaking of the "real America" (I usually associate this term, in quotation, with the old cliches like Route 66, Norman Rockwell, etc etc), in College Park so many students from other parts of the state say Montgomery County isn't the "real Maryland". Like we're not that big on crab cakes or the Preakness. The area just feels very mellow and bland and so many people are from elsewhere. Montgomery is like a place of everywhere, yet nowhere. There's nothing unique or special about Montgomery County the way Baltimore has a unique flavor to it.

So I guess the flavor of Montgomery County isn't the "southern" part of Maryland that other parts of the state do have. Its mostly just malls, fast food, chain restaurants, big box stores, shopping centers and subdivisions, which I associate with the North but that's just my personal thing. Potomac and Bethesda are a replica of Long Island/Westchester. Gathersburg and Germantown's suburban sprawl feels just like the soulless expanse of northern New Jersey. Its not like the SOuth or the Midwest or even some parts of Maryland where every town is unique and special.

Someone here on this thread mentioned Dunkin Donuts as a very northern thing, and I guess Starbucks is too while things like Bojangles, Waffle House, and Wal-Mart are more southern. I've also heard Chick-fil-A mentioned as a very Southern thing. Actually somewhat concerned, is IHOP a very Yankee thing? I mean southerners go to Waffle House instead dont' they? I happen to love IHOP a lot.

[Aalbatr0ss]

Is the Preakness in Maryland? I had no idea. (I don't live there yet)