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I've been grouping North Carolina with Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee and calling it the "Mid South." Maybe Maryland and West Virginia would fit in there as well?
Depends on what Southern lifestyle you are looking for weather, terrain, life style, people, culture judging by the lack of information in what you are seeking North Carolina is southern of any State above Virginia
Technically, North Carolina is a mid-Atlantic state, as is South Carolina. However, that being said, I DO consider this to be the South! Especially after 20 years in Michigan!
Depends on what Southern lifestyle you are looking for weather, terrain, life style, people, culture judging by the lack of information in what you are seeking North Carolina is southern of any State above Virginia
Well, the climate certainly suggests southern, as does the "yes maam's" and "yes sir's", in restaurants, the tea is automatically "sweet", grits are a common breakfast item, it is below (south of) the line theorized by Mason and Dixon, there really are magnolia trees, and folks understand that a tomato sandwich gets salt and pepper and Dukes mayonaisse. Yeah, tis probably southern.
I've been grouping North Carolina with Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee and calling it the "Mid South." Maybe Maryland and West Virginia would fit in there as well?
Grouped with Virginia...Yes. Grouped with Tennessee and Kentucky...No. That's just my opinion. I can see grouping the mountains with TN and KY but I just don't see it for the rest of the state.
If state boundaries weren't the consideration, I'd group the swath of cities along I-85 from Atlanta, through Charlotte, the Triad, Triangle and up to Richmond culturally.
The Mason–Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") is a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia). It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. Popular speech, especially since the Missouri compromise of 1820 (apparently the first official usage of the term "Mason's and Dixon's Line"), uses the Mason-Dixon Line symbolically as a cultural boundary between the Northern United States and the Southern United States (Dixie).
When I was a kid here in NC in the 70s our teachers made us memorize the "southern" states repeatedly. Their definition of "southern" was below the Mason-Dixon line, which does make Maryland and Delaware into "southern" states. I don't really buy into that definition anymore; I'd call this area mid-Atlantic or "south, but not deep south."
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