Where the Heck is Maryland?

Maryland was admitted to the Union in 1788. It’s a state of about 6 million people and is roughly one eighth the size of the entire United Kingdom. But there’s just one question: where the heck is it?

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[edwardmacsherry]

Everyone: Are you north or south?

Maryland: Yes.

[nmurphy]

Maryland has everything. Rich areas, ghetto areas, hick areas, and beach bums

[jonfreeman]

If America is the melting pot of the world, then Maryland is the melting pot of America.

[jkwb]

Maryland is just Maryland. northeners think we're southern and southerners certainly think we're northern. just let us be us lol

[amandaduberry]

All you need to know about us is we have the best crab cakes.

[Pauliebear]

We're "Little America." Got a bit of everything - mountains, beaches, farmland, cities and suburbs :)

[fredcarroll]

I suggest a road trip with stops in Ocean City, Baltimore and Cumberland MD. You’ll come back even more confused.

[ReformedSooner]

Are you north or south?
Maryland: we don’t know so yes

[Glaszy]

As a Marylander I've always considered us to be a technically southern state while being culturally more northern. I've also always felt like the south shuns us and the north ignores us, definitely adding to the mid Atlantic case.

[edklein]

Lifelong Marylander here. The state used to have a tourism slogan: "America in Miniature". And it's not untrue. If you go down to Charles County in southern maryland, you'll find tobacco fields and a culture which would be right at home in Virginia or the Carolinas. You have Baltimore which is an industrial northeastern city. You have western maryland which is rural and mountainous. We're confused 'cuz we're a fusion of several cultures, none of which is predominant.

[aface]

I’m from Maryland and I can confirm that Maryland is a dinosaur.

[JayceLeo]

Nobody:
Marylanders in the comments: “As A mArYlAnDeR”
So anyways as a Marylander I believe we are mid Atlantic

[peteg]

I would also argue Maryland has the best State Flag in the Union.

[thudthud]

When it comes to learning about my home, the United States of America, this YouTube channel is my most entertaining source. Well done, Laurence.

[yawoelevn]

Only people who live outside of Maryland have time to debate this. People in Maryland really don’t care.

[johnschwartz]

Geographically, we're Mid-Atlantic. Socially, we're northern, as solidly blue as Massachusetts or New York. Historically, we were southern, with plantations and slavery and all that.

So you see, it's all clear as mud.

[jayhafe]

Maryland: Where northern hospitality meets southern efficiency.

[PetiteRosalie]

We’re in a constant state of anxiety, thanks for asking.

[johnalden]

Historically, Maryland was founded as a plantation economy, much like Virginia, and so was more Southern in character. By the time of the Civil War, it was more properly a border state, with a fair number of northern farmers having drifted into central and western Maryland. Today, it is just itself. The central core where most of the population lives is an extension of the urban megalopolis that runs from Boston to Washington, D.C. So that part of the state is culturally more northern or maybe just more cosmopolitan. Much of the rest of the state is still rural and retains more of its original cultural character, which tended to be Southern -- especially Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore.

[maryloufarnsworth]

Maryland definitely is unique. During the American Civil War one of my relatives, living in Frederick, had a husband who was fighting for the North. At the same time she hid a confederate soldier who had gotten separated from his unit. She didn't want him to get captured. When asked why she did it she replied that she would like to think that some Southern lady would protect her man in the same way. Should have left the conflict to the ladies to work it out.