Thread: Is D.C. really the Northeast?

Quote: Originally Posted by TexasReb I still think this was one of the very best ever done on the "cultural regions" of the South.... http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/r...91/south-3.jpg In my opinion, the dark blue in Texas needs to extended maybe 2 or 3 tiers of counties to the left.

Quote: Originally Posted by Unstable The census may be "really old" but it's the only government agency that's been doing this for a long time. Everything else is just opinion. You do know that the Census Bureau is the basically the only govt. agency/dept that classifies MD/DC/DE as Southern. The FBI, FTA, FAA, DOE, EPA, FWS, NPS, etc. all classify Maryland in either Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern regions.

Quote: Originally Posted by Unstable No, DC is in the South. The Mid-Atlantic is in the Northeast; is it a subregion, not a region Below the mason-dixon yes, but DC is generally perceived as the beginning of the northeast. I have never understood why NY, NJ and PA were considersd mid-atlantic when they are not geographically in the middle of the east coast. To me mid-atlantic is a geographic area that encompasses MD, VA, DC, DE, and parts of...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrMcCoySays I think you missed my point. I wasn't implying that southern Illinois is the South. I was just saying to Spade that just because a place may feel or seem southern doesn't mean it is in the South. Despite some characteristics, no part of Illinois is the South, to me. Although wikipedia does identify extreme southern Illinois as the "upland South". The upland South doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by LINative "The South is no more "stuck in the past" than other U.S. regions...but people's ideas of the South are certainly "stuck in the past". An excellent point! Some people seem to have this view of the South as only the traditional Anglo-Saxon Southern white culture. So if new people like Yankees or Hispanics move to Florida or Virginia --- these states are...

Quote: Originally Posted by ajf131 I have no idea what you see as Southern in the New York accent. That accent sounds far more like New England than it does any part of the South. In Maryland, there are Southern dialects present, but they are not the dominant dialects. Maryland feels and culturally resembles Pennsylvania today more than it does Virginia. I didn't really mean accent I meant the way some people put sentences together and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Spade I agree with 95% of it. The other 5 relates to the state of Fla. The color of Florida or even transition not only needs to be extended. it needs to cover the entire state. Try telling people in Belle Glade and Clewiston they are not in the South. In fact, visit those areas and tell me they are not in the South. True; People in South Florida will definitely consider themselves southern over anything else. Even...

Quote: Originally Posted by jluke65780 Agreed. I've never seen that map before. Good find. I agree with 95% of it. The other 5 relates to the state of Fla. The color of Florida or even transition not only needs to be extended. it needs to cover the entire state. Try telling people in Belle Glade and Clewiston they are not in the South. In fact, visit those areas and tell me they are not in the South.

Quote: Originally Posted by MrMcCoySays So? Just because VA was technically a part of the Confederacy makes it more southern than south Illinois? Little Egypt is closer to Miss., Louisiana, and Texas than VA is. And wasn't Maryland part of the Old South too? Good basis for your argument but at the same time VA is closer to Carolina, Georgia than south Illionis because they are southern states on the eastcoast also. Also VA is surrounded...

Quote: Originally Posted by Infamous92 I agree, even in NY/NJ you can hear the Southern a little (not in everybody though), I hear words like "ain't", "gon" (gonna), etc. but in a different accent or a mixed New York/Southern accent. "ain't" isnt southern, its slang. people from Mass. say "aint" too (loads of people). Its just poor english, not a regional thing.