How would you define the Mid Atlantic region? (vacation, land)

[Champ le monstre du lac]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

Pittsburgh is located in the Mid Atlantic. You cannot disconnect Pittsburgh from Pennsylvania or the Mid Atlantic. It’s not that difficult to understand.

No need to be condescending about it, and you're assuming everyone else agrees with you to include all of PA. You just happen have a different opinion about it. It's actually easy to question since Pittsburgh is 350+ miles to the Atlantic and deep in the Appalachian regions, not far from one of the Great Lakes. As other posters have mentioned Mid-Atlantic is a bit of a nebulous region. What is it about Pittsburgh that is so "Mid Atlantic". Would you call Western NY & Buffalo (a Great Lakes City) the Mid Atlantic?

[Gaylord_Focker]

Originally Posted by Champ le monstre du lac

No need to be condescending about it, and you're assuming everyone else agrees with you to include all of PA. You just happen have a different opinion about it. It's actually easy to question since Pittsburgh is 350+ miles to the Atlantic and deep in the Appalachian regions, not far from one of the Great Lakes. As other posters have mentioned Mid-Atlantic is a bit of a nebulous region. What is it about Pittsburgh that is so "Mid Atlantic". Would you call Western NY & Buffalo (a Great Lakes City) the Mid Atlantic?

Repped. Everyone needs to relax and stop the name-calling. Let's be civil. It's a discussion board, no?

[SunGrins]

Originally Posted by Kaszilla

New York down to MD were historically considered the mid Atlantic

Right. They are coastal but also have the influence of major rivers and estuaries -- more prominently than New England and the south.

[Tusco]

Always: New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Often: Delaware, Maryland, and Washington DC.

[LINative]

Originally Posted by Kaszilla

New York down to MD were historically considered the mid Atlantic

Historically it was New York down to Delaware. Maryland began to be tacked on sometime in the 1800s, followed by Virginia.

Now some people are trying to put North Carolina in the Mid-Atlantic. Eventually the Mid-Atlantic will go all the way to Key West lol.

[mpier015]

I personally include Richmond and Hampton roads.

[Doughboy1918]

Originally Posted by Duderino

Yes, for sure. Pittsburgh really does take on all of the characteristics of a Mid-Atlantic city. And that's really not well understood by most folks not terribly familiar with the region or Pennsylvania more specifically.

I think Philadelphia, Wilmington or Trenton fit the bill much more. Pittsburgh is renowned for its heavy Appalachian influence alongside Upper Midwest/Great Lakes.

[Veritas Vincit]

It's a complex subject. Every federal agency and service has their own regional maps. Most of them do not even have a Mid-Atlantic in it, instead choosing to divvy up the East Coast between North and South. The ones that do can't even agree on a definition.



If you looked at a map just for businesses and institutions that use Mid-Atlantic in their names, I think you'd find its usage actually peaks in the D.C. metro, but is strongest pretty much between the Hampton Roads area and Central PA but you can still find it being done all the way down into Georgia and all the way into upstate NY.



I personally would thus opt for VA, MD, D.C., DE, PA as the core Mid-Atlantic region with NY/NJ and the Carolinas as sort of an expanded zone of influence.

[Heel82]

Like people consider NY Mid-Atlantic here. I don’t think I ever in my real life heard NY called Mid-Atlantic. And while maybe Pennsylvania is a Mid-Atlantic state, I really have a hard time considering Pittsburgh a Mid-Atlantic city. To each their own though.

[citydweller]

As a native from NC I’ve never heard NC as being Mid Atlantic, at least growing up here. I was taught Va as being the most southern Mid Atlantic state.