Are Southern MD'ers southerners?
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CableChick
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I'm a Lusbian.
I'm a Lusbian.
I don't think of Maryland as the south. Or even northern VA. I guess it depends on where you are, what you consider the "south". I have a friend from Laurel who now lives in NYC, and her friends/coworkers up there call her "the Southern Belle", which makes her laugh hysterically.
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CableChick
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If you go by history, we are considered northern I guess. But I personally don't think of Maryland or Virginia as "southern". Maybe if you go into the foothills of VA, but then I think more backwoods than southern.
I can say from experience that we tend to be a bit more friendly down here than in the M'ville area.
I can say from experience that we tend to be a bit more friendly down here than in the M'ville area.
CableChick
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Perhaps. But not always.vivo said:
greyhound
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I found these two links interesting
http://www.etymonline.com/cw/maryland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Southern_states
http://www.etymonline.com/cw/maryland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Southern_states
oldman
Lobster Land
vivo said:
Nope, we ain't southerners any more than your East Indian forefathers can be referred to as Easterners. We just happen to live in the three counties that make up southern MD. People that live in the DelMarVa area are not DelMarVa'ers either - they simply live there. Welcome aboard also.
Penn
Dancing Up A Storm
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/usa/mas_dix.htm
"Nowadays, the name Mason-Dixon Line is used colloquially to mean the boundary between the Northern and Southern states, or between the Union and the Confederacy during the American Civil War, or between the free states and the slave states."
Since the Mason-Dixon line is commonly known as the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, wouldn't that make us Southerners?
From the wikipedia URL above:
"Historically, the South can also refer to the Old South, the Southern states represented in the original thirteen American colonies: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Deep South and the Old South used to be known colloquially as Dixie, and may still be referred to nostalgically as such."
"Nowadays, the name Mason-Dixon Line is used colloquially to mean the boundary between the Northern and Southern states, or between the Union and the Confederacy during the American Civil War, or between the free states and the slave states."
Since the Mason-Dixon line is commonly known as the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, wouldn't that make us Southerners?
From the wikipedia URL above:
"Historically, the South can also refer to the Old South, the Southern states represented in the original thirteen American colonies: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Deep South and the Old South used to be known colloquially as Dixie, and may still be referred to nostalgically as such."
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greyhound
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onebdzee said:What about those of us that aren't from here?
I grew up in Southern Va(still have some of the accent) and I consider myself a "southerner"
I was always told that if you were born and raised south of the "Mason Dixon Line" you were a southerner
From what I could see in the two websites I posted, Southern Maryland would be considered "southern". But Baltimore would not. This according to the sites has to do with culture.
oldman
Lobster Land
onebdzee said:What about those of us that aren't from here?
I grew up in Southern Va(still have some of the accent) and I consider myself a "southerner"
I was always told that if you were born and raised south of the "Mason Dixon Line" you were a southerner
You are correct, you are a southerner. I grew up in southern N.J. and now live in southern MD, but I am not.
Good thing we don't have to deal with this north/south crap.
vivo said:
I know I have lived in southern md since I was 5 yrs old and everybody thinks I have a southern accent. Once I was in a local store and one of the workers asked where I was from and I'm like here and he goes no where did you live before you moved here. I was like marlow heights lol. He thought I was from South Carolina or something like that. Nobody else in my family has an accent though.
HorseLady
Painted Spirit
Growing up in Philly and transplanting here I definitly feel southernized. Especially in the rural areas of So Md when you talk to the old farmers and hear their accents! Worked with some of them and thought I would need a translater until I finally figured the speech pattern out. It is a shame with the advance of TV and influx of outsiders the local speech patterns are being lost. It took me a while to figure out where Dougpatch was!