How would you define the Mid Atlantic region? (graphic design, cities)

[Gaylord_Focker]

Originally Posted by VitoM2000

I'd say NOVA/DC, MD, Delaware, eastern PA, NJ, and southeastern NY is the Mid-Atlantic.

For me as well.

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

Is, or is not, Pittsburgh located in state highlighted as a Mid-Atlantic state on this map from 1897?





Texas is much larger than Pennsylvania.

Bottom line, if you're far enough east to get belted by nor'easters, then you're Mid-Atlantic. (And those aren't the only two examples either, just the two most extreme.)

Off topic, but this is a cool old map. Notice how the directional flow of the rivers is indicated by arrows. Nice feature.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by 908Boi

i suppose technically the Gulf of Mexico is the Atlantic Ocean. Pittsburgh still isn't Mid-Atlantic.

You know, it's possible for a person to ride a small watercraft from Newport News, VA to Cooperstown, NY.

Gee, who knew the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was in the South?

[Gaylord_Focker]

Originally Posted by Duderino

I'll also leave people who actually live in/are from the Mid-Atlantic region to define the region.

Like, sorry, New Englanders. Your pedantic take on the term "Atlantic" doesn't apply here.

Again. Don’t want to veer this off topic. But southerners don’t consider dc the south. Dc residents don’t consider themselves southern but people from Boston and Chicago do. Oddest thing

[LINative]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

You know, it's possible for a person to ride a small watercraft from Newport News, VA to Cooperstown, NY.

Gee, who knew the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was in the South?

This is because of the canal system of New York, in which the Erie Canal is the most famous. You can reach the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, the St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago, the Mississippi and beyond.

Since this a thread about the Mid-Atlantic....

https://eriecanalmuseum.org/event/lu...lantic-canals/

With the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 the United States experienced a period of “Canal Mania,” resulting in the construction of thousands of miles of the canals throughout the country. While most attempted to emulate the Erie Canal in its economic success, the realities of geography, finances, politics, and engineering necessitated that each canal be unique in its own special way. This roundtable, featuring Rod Mackler of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Association, Bill Merchant of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Historical Society, Derrick Pratt of the Erie Canal Museum, and Tim Roth of the Canal Society of New Jersey, will examine four of these unique canals, looking at their similarities and differences while having an engaging exchange on 19th century American canals.

This is a lecture about "four unique Mid Atlantic canals". Notice you do not have to be 3 miles from the ocean to be considered Mid-Atlantic, indeed many of the canals in the Mid-Atlantic were more inland at the fall line or westward. These canals listed are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia areas.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by LINative

...Montreal, Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago...

All clearly Northeastern cities, since the St. Lawrence River flows directly into the Atlantic Ocean, instead of the Gulf of Mexico.

[Greenvalleyfan]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

Again. Don’t want to veer this off topic. But southerners don’t consider dc the south. Dc residents don’t consider themselves southern but people from Boston and Chicago do. Oddest thing

The south starts south of the Mason Dixon line historicly.

[Gaylord_Focker]

Originally Posted by Greenvalleyfan

The south starts south of the Mason Dixon line historicly.

And at one point in history Ohio was the western US

[GeoffD]

Personally, I'd say you have to be within an hour of Acela to be mid-Atlantic. I'm not sure about NoVA and Westchester County. Is Bethesda Mid-Atlantic and Arlington not Mid-Atlantic? Is Rye NH Mid-Atlantic and Greenwich not Mid-Atlantic?

[Duderino]

I think there's definitely some conflation going on here between "Northeast Corridor" and "Mid-Atlantic." However, they are not one and the same.

The Mid-Atlantic overlays the Northeast Corridor from NYC to DC, but it's not coterminous.