Proof that Maryland is Southern (Baltimore, California: living, area, ceramic)

[Infinite_heights77]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

Originally Posted by Richard Martin

It's not and the majority of Southern supporters don't say it is. They say that it's a mix of North and South. It's a hybrid state. It's the Northern supporters that refuse to accept the fact that there are Northern and Southern areas. They insist that the entire state is Northern.

[Infinite_heights77]

Maryland: The Hybrid State!


I kind of like that! It is somewhat catchy.

[Infinite_heights77]

My uncle can speak fluent German and has never been to Germany. He learned from his German friends in the Baltimore Public School system.

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Scrapple isn't so much a North/South thing as German immigrant thing. Where you had significant immigration from the various Germanic states you'll find scrapple. Baltimore/South Central PA for example (but, strangely enough, not so much in Western PA). New Braunfels, TX is another.

[sniffablecow]

Originally Posted by U146

Overall the state is more Northern than it is Southern. Except for Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore the state is culturally politically and linguistically the most like Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southern New Jersey.

Actually they do. If you go around city data, you see southern supporters denying the fact is has any northern aspects. Most of the northern supporters actually believe in a mix, it is the southern supporters who refuse to accept the fact that Maryland isn't alabama.

[sniffablecow]

Originally Posted by sniffablecow

Actually they do. If you go around city data, you see southern supporters denying the fact is has any northern aspects. Most of the northern supporters actually believe in a mix, it is the southern supporters who refuse to accept the fact that Maryland isn't alabama.

wrong person, my bad

[KodeBlue]

Originally Posted by Professor Griff

The only parts of Maryland that have a southern feel to them, in my opinion, are southern Maryland (Calvert, Charles, St. Mary's counties) and the Eastern Shore. Accents begin to have a draw to them, the culture is a bit slower paced, the landscape begins to look more "southern-y" (tall pines and sandy soil).

That sounds a lot like South Jersey

[ialmostforgot]

Originally Posted by KodeBlue

That sounds a lot like South Jersey

I know where you are coming from, but the difference is that Maryland has southern pines such as p. taeda that are either rare or nonexistent in New Jersey. Also these areas are in the southern accent region (research "Virginia Piedmont" and "tidewater" accents to get an idea of the speech found there --- a more rhotic version is spoken by youngsters, though older people will still drop their r's).

[ialmostforgot]

Originally Posted by Infinite_heights77

My uncle can speak fluent German and has never been to Germany. He learned from his German friends in the Baltimore Public School system.

Well yes, Northern Maryland has German ancestry like bordering areas of Pennsylvania. That's where the Midland stops. Maryland has good amounts of midland and southern areas within its boundaries.

[sniffablecow]

Originally Posted by ialmostforgot

Well yes, Northern Maryland has German ancestry like bordering areas of Pennsylvania. That's where the Midland stops. Maryland has good amounts of midland and southern areas within its boundaries.

Living in Maryland, I think the southern culture starts at either eastern shore, or under DC. Living around DC, I found it quite fast-paced, always seeing cars driving at 12:00 AM. But once I got under, it was like a huge change, I felt like I was in a totally different state. Also, when I go visit friends from somewhere else, they say I dont have any type of accent. I have an accent, but I guess it is very nuetral. People in new england think I sound nuetral, but the south thinks I sound northern. I just find it so weird...

[SeanSR81]

Why don't we just be Maryland? We were apart of the Confederate states, I never really read anywhere that we were a southern state and we aren't really a north eastern state. I am gonna quote Brantley Gilbert's song and say "it doesn't matter where, It's how you live".