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That is merely arguing semantics. According to your definition, Maryland isn't white-collar dominated either.
What I meant by that description is that there's a very large percentage of highly-paid, highly-educated people - a similarity that all 4 of these states share among many other things and places them among the wealthiest in the United States. Simple concept really.
True, but there's also a significant blue-collar presence in the tri-state area as well. That's a characteristic Maryland, particularly Baltimore, shares with areas north of it but not DC.
But you'll notice that whenever any comparisons come up they go to all kinds of length to prove their similarity with a NE city/state, yet won't put in the same effort to argue the similarities with Southern cities/ states.
Well, we know why that's the case.
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Maybe because being associated with the south comes with negative stereotypes such as racism, being backwards, homophobic, poor, religion hostility, etc.
You will hear all types of comments like "Maryland reminds me of New England," which is fine if that's your opinion, but then if you post something like this...
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"I'm from South Carolina but I think Southern Maryland is more ‘Southern' than where I came from," he said. "The lower part of the state, Waldorf and below, is Southern compared to where I came from. To me, Southern heritage is based on God, based on patriotism, based on friends, based on family."
The Northern Mid-Atlantic has more ethnic whites than the southern Mid-Atlantic. That's the main difference. It is a culture thing. Now you can stop arguing.
This topic also applies to Florida along with Maryland and Delaware, because the same people that hate it when people associate Maryland and Delaware with the South also hate it when people associate Florida with the South.
This topic also applies to Florida along with Maryland and Delaware, because the same people that hate it when people associate Maryland and Delaware with the South also hate it when people associate Florida with the South.
You literally cannot get any further south than Florida, so if Florida isn't Southern then I don't know what is.
This topic also applies to Florida along with Maryland and Delaware, because the same people that hate it when people associate Maryland and Delaware with the South also hate it when people associate Florida with the South.
It's interesting though, that Delaware very rarely comes up in North/South discussions (at least not that I'm aware of). The fact that the most populous part of the state being unequivocally part of metro Philly may be why, but they seem to stay out of any North-South arguments.
It's interesting though, that Delaware very rarely comes up in North/South discussions (at least not that I'm aware of). The fact that the most populous part of the state being unequivocally part of metro Philly may be why, but they seem to stay out of any North-South arguments.
That is an interesting question. You don't really see Wilmington characterized as a once Southern city the way you do Baltimore and DC. That was pretty much the characterization of Baltimore and DC up until the 1960s and 70s.
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The glimmering glass pavilions, pyramid-shaped aquarium and spiffy red-brick downtown baseball park that today lure tourists by the millions to Baltimore's Inner Harbor were little more than blueprints on a developer's drawing board when, in 1970, I first left the sleepy Southern town of my birth.
There are parts of Delaware that are, I think, indisputably Southern in culture. But it doesn't seem that Wilmington was ever that way or perhaps it was such a very long time ago that nobody who knew it as a Southern city is living today. Maybe in another 50 years, after all the old timers have completely died off and Maryland demolishes its Confederate monuments, people will forget that it was ever Southern and these types of articles and threads will all go away.
I also agree that being a core part of the Philly metro probably tampers down a lot of that discussion.
However, it is much less relevant to present day realities than it used to be.
I disagree. Italian, Irish, and Jewish culture is still incredibly strong around here, through parts of PA, New York, and parts of New England.
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