Maryland a southern state (Baltimore, North Beach: appointed, garden, manufactured)

[gwillyfromphilly]

Originally Posted by Macaframalama

Maryland is as she was 160 years ago: a Southern state, occupied by Yankees.

I guess Delaware and South Jersey are to?

[Macaframalama]

Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly

I guess Delaware and South Jersey are to?

What would make New Jersey a part of Dixie, as it's always been Northern?

[Macaframalama]

Ya know, people bash the Mason-Dixon line, regardless of the reason(s). But I ask though, were the states that were decided to be above and below the line, not decided for a reason? Honest question.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by Macaframalama

Ya know, people bash the Mason-Dixon line, regardless of the reason(s). But I ask though, were the states that were decided to be above and below the line, not decided for a reason? Honest question.

Here is the honest answer.

The Mason-Dixon line was drawn to resolve a boundary dispute between the colonies of Maryland and PA. It became the de facto slavery boundary for the east coast much later (although Delaware is a slave state and technically on the PA side of the Mason-Dixon line.)

The fact that other colonies ended up north or south of this line was well....unavoidable?

Many colonies north of the Mason Dixon line allowed slavery until well after the Revolution, so the boundary wasn't intended and didn't function to separate the Slave State from the Free States on the East Coast until well after the line was drawn, and even then Delaware was the outlier...on the PA side of the line, but still a Slave State until the Civil War.

Mason

[Afromatic]

It's definitely not a southern state anymore. When I'm in Maryland I don't here no southern accents.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by Afromatic

It's definitely not a southern state anymore. When I'm in Maryland I don't here no southern accents.

You don't go to the right areas to hear them.

[boomtownfunlover]

I came to Maryland from northern Indiana and the kids in the third grade liked to sing "Dixie". It was the first I'd heard the song.

[josh9494]

maryland is mid atlantic some parts of the eastern shore feel southern but maryland is more northern overall the baltimore dc area is just as up tempo as philly or boston

[Macaframalama]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Here is the honest answer.

The Mason-Dixon line was drawn to resolve a boundary dispute between the colonies of Maryland and PA. It became the de facto slavery boundary for the east coast much later (although Delaware is a slave state and technically on the PA side of the Mason-Dixon line.)

The fact that other colonies ended up north or south of this line was well....unavoidable?

Many colonies north of the Mason Dixon line allowed slavery until well after the Revolution, so the boundary wasn't intended and didn't function to separate the Slave State from the Free States on the East Coast until well after the line was drawn, and even then Delaware was the outlier...on the PA side of the line, but still a Slave State until the Civil War.

Mason

Yeah, that's what I meant, the boundary dispute. But regardless of this issue, why was the territory 15 miles from the southern-most building in Philadelphia (you know, the South), considered to be "the South"?? Your last paragraph says that line wasn't due to slaves, I mean, I just don't get what made them say "ok, everything below the Keystone State is Southern".

[Macaframalama]

And what the HELL is Delaware??