Maryland Doesn't Want To Be "Southern"?
What?
Many of Maryland's leaders feel that the state is leaning toward the north in terms of their political mindset.
In fact, the state moved from the Southern Region of the Council of State Governments to the Eastern Region to trade ideas with state officials from Pennsylvania, New York, etc.
"I just don't think we're as Southern as people used to think," says state Senator Catherine Pugh. Other residents disagree saying that due to the capitol of Annapolis having a small town feel, they essentially feel more southern.
Maryland readers, what do U think?
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Okay….so Im from MD have lived here my whole life. Technically we are a southern state (below the mason-dixon line). However, you ask people from the south if we are "south"….they say no. You ask people from the north if we are from the north….they say no. So no one claims us. We are an eastern state.
maryland is in no way southern. period.
ps - i'm a southerner and i know plenty of other southerners who don't have "backwards mindsets" as some other awesome northerners have stated in this post. that's the ignorance they just insulted. i'm a moderate who is deep into the plight of lgbt rights movement and many other "liberal" movements across the country. so don't tread on me you rude ass notherner.
i consider myself in between. we're like the dividing region.
I live in MD and there are practicing KKK groups and lots of racism. MD is a southern shiteous hole.
Hey Perez!,,Well Im A Teenager Living In MD In Lyke The Southern Part And Well Some Peps Call MD Mini America Cause We Hav Mountains, Beaches, Cities, && All Of That! Its Kinda Hard To Determine Cause In Southern Md && Eastern MD there r PLENTY SOUTHERNS! But Up IN Baltimore Or Northen Parts Its Preddi Northen So Yah,,Its Confusin WE EASTERN! :]
Maryland hasn't been Southern for many decades. I was born outside of Washington, DC, and most of us don't understand the link to the South other than from the Civil War and the random out-dated Mason-Dixon Line references. It doesn't even "lean" Northern. It just plain is. There are people in Southern Maryland who seem a bit redneck Southern, but they're of the same strain as the rednecks in PA, NY, etc.
This is really really random Perez. And honestly, I don't care whether our state is northern or southern even though I've always considered MD northern or "mid atlantic".
Re: SammiDe –
Haha. Wow. I don't know where the hell you have been in MD (most probable is the Eastern Shore where, yes you will encounter some southern influence), but I have lived here for my entire life and I say neither y'all nor out yonder. I also don't have any sort of southern accent. We're aren't all rednecks. So "once you cross the Mason Dixon line" we aren't all the same.
I am a Marylander, and my mom lives close to Annapolis, and my dad is on the eastern shore and is a farmer. I get the best of both worlds from Maryland: the quiet, no traffic, small-town, farm life, and then i come to Annapolis and there is amazing food, shopping, lots of traffic and the city feel. I don't think Maryland can be defined and it needs to stop being worried about. We are below the Mason-Dixon line but I see us as the bridge between the north and the south. We have a lot of diversity and we aren't north nor south by definition.
they are deffinately southern. i hate going there and dc.
Since 1820 when the Missouri Compromise was passed the term "Mason-Dixon Line" was used. Maryland appears below the Mason-Dixon line which makes the state SOUTHERN. Jeeze, does no one in the Perez Hilton planet or in the government remember their HISTORY!?!?!? Apparently not since we are still fighting in Afganistan.
Haha… Maryland will never be 'north' at heart. I live right by the PA line… Redneck town. If anyone thinks we're considered 'north'… come to my house… I'll change your mind.
Well, I've never considered them "SOUTHERN".
Course, I've never been there either.
:p
MD is not Southern at all, but outside of the city areas are some redneck freaks.
I was raised in Western NC and my father lived in Southern MD. Every summer when I would visit MD my step sisters would ridicule me for my southern accent and love of country music. While there are definitely some trashy people in MD, they’re not redneck and they’re definitely not southern. They don’t want us and we don’t want them.
I grew up in Annapolis Md (lovely town), I've lived in DC area every since (45 mins - close by).
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Maryland is definitely democrat, intelligent and Northern. VA, on the other hand . . . nothern VA's 3 counties - Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax carry the entire fucking hick state - i.e. 1/22 of the state - the democratic party - carries the stupid fucking hick farmers in the rest of VA. Love to get rid of them . . .
I've lived in MD for the first 20 years of my life, then my husband and I moved to Texas, and now we're back again. I personally feel like a southerner, besides I thought we were considered the south because of the Mason-Dixon line? Oh well, I vote southern!
We're below the Mason-Dixon! Its a southern state, always has been, always will be. If you don't like it, get the hell out and head north!
Techincally Maryland is a Southern state…hello, remember the Mason-Dixon line? Being from Annapolis, politically there is a northern feel. But for living here, it has a small-town southern feel and the high-priced snooty-community northern feel as well.