Is Maryland a Southern State

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Anonymous wrote:No, it's a Mid-Atlantic state. So sick of the outdated Mason Dixon argument.

Why are you sick of it. That is the definition and it doesn't matter how you feel about it.

Mkay, no. Definitions from yesterday don't necessarily define today.

Yeah, they really do. Especially in this case.

Marylanders don’t agree with you.

Despite the Census laws defining Maryland as a Southern Atlantic state - the vast majority of Marylanders consider themselves to be living in a northern state.

Politically, Maryland has much more in common with New England mindsets than southern states.

Just curious, what’s your evidence that most Marylanders consider themselves northerners?

In my own experience, most I know don’t identify with either the north or the south.

MD Goucher college poll … they do a lot of public opinion polls and are based in Md.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-considered-northern-state-goucher-college-poll/

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I see Maryland as more Pennsylvania/Delaware than far Northern states. Maryland is not Maine/Rhode Island at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I see Maryland as more Pennsylvania/Delaware than far Northern states. Maryland is not Maine/Rhode Island at all.

Yes, that’s why we have mid-Atlantic states and Maryland is one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:No, it's a Mid-Atlantic state. So sick of the outdated Mason Dixon argument.

Why are you sick of it. That is the definition and it doesn't matter how you feel about it.

Mkay, no. Definitions from yesterday don't necessarily define today.

Yeah, they really do. Especially in this case.

Marylanders don’t agree with you.

Despite the Census laws defining Maryland as a Southern Atlantic state - the vast majority of Marylanders consider themselves to be living in a northern state.

Politically, Maryland has much more in common with New England mindsets than southern states.

Just curious, what’s your evidence that most Marylanders consider themselves northerners?

In my own experience, most I know don’t identify with either the north or the south.

MD Goucher college poll … they do a lot of public opinion polls and are based in Md.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-considered-northern-state-goucher-college-poll/

Like many polls, they do random telephone calls. I wonder, though, how representative these are — since many people with caller-ID. No longer answer calls from unfamiliar numbers. Then, of those who do, not all will be willing to be surveyed. Not knocking this particular survey, just pointing out some typical limitations.

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Maryland is Mid-Atlantic, it's on the cusp of north and south.

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Anonymous wrote:No, it's a Mid-Atlantic state. So sick of the outdated Mason Dixon argument.

Why are you sick of it. That is the definition and it doesn't matter how you feel about it.

Mkay, no. Definitions from yesterday don't necessarily define today.

Yeah, they really do. Especially in this case.

Marylanders don’t agree with you.

Despite the Census laws defining Maryland as a Southern Atlantic state - the vast majority of Marylanders consider themselves to be living in a northern state.

Politically, Maryland has much more in common with New England mindsets than southern states.

That’s interesting. I wonder how many of these Marylanders that you speak of are actually transplants?
What would Andy Harris say?

I dunno but it could go either way … Dr Harris was burn in Brooklyn of immigrant parents, and is a GOP physician activist in Annapolis. You should ask his office and let us know. He sounds like a thoughtful and intelligent person.

My best guess is he would land somewhere similar to a nuanced PP - technically southern but it’s complicated. Most people are more black and white (which he might appreciate as a physician is probably connected to our brain physiology/ dualistic interpretation of reality).

Politically and culturally most Marylanders seem to identify more with northern state values and mind sets even if originally they were the northern most of the slave-holding southern states.


https://harris.house.gov/

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Anonymous wrote:No, it's a Mid-Atlantic state. So sick of the outdated Mason Dixon argument.

Why are you sick of it. That is the definition and it doesn't matter how you feel about it.

Mkay, no. Definitions from yesterday don't necessarily define today.

Yeah, they really do. Especially in this case.

Marylanders don’t agree with you.

Despite the Census laws defining Maryland as a Southern Atlantic state - the vast majority of Marylanders consider themselves to be living in a northern state.

Politically, Maryland has much more in common with New England mindsets than southern states.

Just curious, what’s your evidence that most Marylanders consider themselves northerners?

In my own experience, most I know don’t identify with either the north or the south.

MD Goucher college poll … they do a lot of public opinion polls and are based in Md.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-considered-northern-state-goucher-college-poll/

Like many polls, they do random telephone calls. I wonder, though, how representative these are — since many people with caller-ID. No longer answer calls from unfamiliar numbers. Then, of those who do, not all will be willing to be surveyed. Not knocking this particular survey, just pointing out some typical limitations.

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