Depends on the part of MD. I can see how some of the southern/western bits, once you really get out in the rural areas, can be grouped in with some of the "northern southern" bits like virginia. But the part where I live is very not southern, except for Bawlmerese, which is just weird and doesn't know what it wants to be.
And btw, RI is not red on the map. Were you thinking of DE, the tiny state next to MD? That's not very southern, either, for the record.



Ark-in-saw!

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Jabari Nwosu * Joshua Tannerman * Lenora Hollings * Lillian Stewart * Maria Bonoa

Oooooooooooh.

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*Roselyn "Red" Synders Gryffindor 7th year
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I saked a PA-person, who said pretty much the same about Texans.

Personally, as a lot of you might be aware, I'm from quite a ways outside of the US. And we would consider Texas very Southern, having no idea what the f*** the "American Civil War" is all about anyway.

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Same here.

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*Roselyn "Red" Synders Gryffindor 7th year
* Tristan Durie Ravenclaw 1st year
*Liline Milne Slytherin 1st year

Yes that's not RI. I'm stupid.

Southern isn't only a direction in the US, it's a culture. It came from the time when Southern was a direction, bit in the hundred and fifty years that expanded the US west, the original South isn't the same as the Southwest, or Texas, or SoCal, which have their own culture.

The US Civil War (as it is called in the North) or the War of Northern Agression, or simply War Between the States as it is called in the South (because it can't be civil if they are two separate countries)... had to do with the Northern states conquering the Southern states (to become what the US is today) when they decided they no longer wanted to be part of the US. It was done through military, and legal in the form of Constitutional amendments, which -technically- are not legal to this day because the Southern states never ratified them.

It was 150 years ago but the impact on the direction of the country, or what would have ended up being two countries, is obviously significant even to this day. In fact, the main foundational arguments in politics today are pretty much the same unresolved fight as was happening then. Only the specifics have changed.

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Texas just has to compensate for the fact that Alaska is and always will be WAY BIGGER! Suckers!

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Keep right on keepin' on, Ree. All 700,000 of those Alaskans support you, I'm sure!

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Hmm, I always thought it was pronounced like Kansas was, but with an Ar in front lol.

All I know about the civil war I learnt from 'Gone with the Wind'. XD

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"I sense a costume opportunity!"

While we were invaded by Confederates during the Civil War we eventually repulsed them. It got so bad for the poor southerners that they even started arming their Union prisoners in a desperate attempt to fight off Apaches. We're northerners!


North and south aren't directions in the US, I'm afraid. You're either a northerner or a hillbilly hick redneck southerner. I kid, of course. A good way to tell if someone is a good ol' boy is if they ever say "War of Northern Aggression."

If you want to see how the southerners perceive themselves watch a few episodes of the old television show The Dukes of Hazzard. If you want to see how the northerners perceive them, watch Deliverance or read the news.

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