North Carolina is the dividing line between Southern US, Mid-Atlantic, and Northern US.

[CamThomas]

Originally Posted by murksiderock

Nobody calls anything the "South Atlantic", though, Census Bureau be damned. It's not a recognized subregion in any speech. I live in North Carolina (Raleigh), that's not a part of lingo or characterization here...

For the record, neither is Mid-Atlantic, no one here considers this anything but the South...

The Mid-Atlantic in practicality is the DC/Bmore Capital region and surrounding areas with cultural and economic ties to that region. All of VA's most populated areas are Mid-Atlantic...

repped. Growing up in Texas I definitely thought everything from Nova to NYC was mid-Atlantic

[Arcenal813]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

I stayed in North Carolina for about 5 months. It definitely felt like the south to me

Yeah... I spent a lot of time in Charlotte, and other parts of NC in these past few years, and it certainly felt like "the deep South" to me. No different than Georgia.

[CamThomas]

Originally Posted by Arcenal813

Yeah... I spent a lot of time in Charlotte, and other parts of NC in these past few years, and it certainly felt like "the deep South" to me. No different than Georgia.

I believe it's Nascar HQ, which is pretty southern imo

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by Arcenal813

Yeah... I spent a lot of time in Charlotte, and other parts of NC in these past few years, and it certainly felt like "the deep South" to me. No different than Georgia.

How are you defining "the deep South" because that's really not Charlotte. The Piedmont South, where Charlotte is located, ismt generally considered the deep South. That's mostly, but not exclusively, the lower coastal plain South. In NC, that's eastern NC (east of I-95 more or less). In Georgia, that's the southern half of the state which is roughly south of the fall line that runs through Augusta, Macon, and Columbus but I'd extend it up to include southernmost metro Atlanta.

Originally Posted by CamThomas

I believe it's Nascar HQ, which is pretty southern imo

NASCAR is headquartered in Daytona Beach but Charlotte does host corporate offices and the hall of fame is located there.

[Nu2Lou]

North Carolina is too far south to be considered the dividing line between the North and South. In Virginia, there is a lot of Southern culture as far north as Winchester.

[chiatldal]

Originally Posted by murksiderock

Nobody calls anything the "South Atlantic", though, Census Bureau be damned. It's not a recognized subregion in any speech. I live in North Carolina (Raleigh), that's not a part of lingo or characterization here...

For the record, neither is Mid-Atlantic, no one here considers this anything but the South...

The Mid-Atlantic in practicality is the DC/Bmore Capital region and surrounding areas with cultural and economic ties to that region. All of VA's most populated areas are Mid-Atlantic...

The mid Atlantic is the Northeast outside of New England. New York to North Virginia.

What I learn is each sub region in the South refers to themself as the The South ignoring the others. That how you end up with West Virginia and Louisiana referring to themself as Southern culture though there is a difference. Yes your right That's my point "South Atlantic" should be a more used term, politically, cultural and geographically. There is good reason for it but it's really not used outside the census cause Most of South Atlantic states just broadly refer to themself as just the South. Until is contrasted with other areas of the South like Texas. There no English colonial cities in Texas-Louisiana etc. There's no Blu ridge Mountains.

This another way to look at it

Region Population Percentage
Northeast.. 57,243,423 .. 17.2%
Midwest... 68,850,246 ... 20.7%
West........ 78,602,026 .. 23.7%
South....... 127,353,282... 38.4%

The West and The South are broad areas because 100 plus years ago these were the less populated regions of the country. The South was never monolithic but it being one of less populated areas created justification for generalizing. but now the situation flip on it's head "the South" is actually lightly more people then Northeast and Midwest combined and growing. but yet this large, populated area is hold to more than any other region as standard purity to what region is.

There debates over what is "The south" but you never heard that Boston is not the Northeast because it's New England. People know that New England is sub region of the Northeast. But that basically how South is being define.

The South the most populous region of the country 127 million is basically being define as "deep South not deep South" which is ridiculous. And States that meet this outdated monolithic stereotype the least are question are there southern at all.

When people point the cultural difference is Texas, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, North Carolina etc. they are not wrong, but that doesn't mean there are not Southern but rather they different sub regions of the South.

Otherwise sub regions of the South are not talked about enough, The South is being generalize as monolithic. And because it's generalized as monolithic leads to Some states being outcast as not southernern enough. Which would not happen if subregion were recognized more often.