Where the Heck is Maryland?
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
- 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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Maryland is just Maryland. northeners think we're southern and southerners certainly think we're northern. just let us be us lol
That makes sense
y'all are north southerners or nourtherners lol
The Shallow South.
Thank you.....same thing with Florida....at least South Florida.
Some parts feel northern, some parts feel southern, but no part feels like New England.
Maryland has everything. Rich areas, ghetto areas, hick areas, and beach bums
Yeah Calvert County is nice
@On dat gas 301 Silver Spring?... You might wanna blame DC for that mess along Georgia Avenue
Prince George’s county is good and the ghetto version is actually a ok place to live
Funny man Eli Blogs agreed even the rough parts of PG are dealable and there’s many great areas of PG regardless of our image
Funny man Eli Blogs I’m straight out of ocean city but go to university of Maryland, but I consider ourselves as southern just cause of the mason dixon line
All you need to know about us is we have the best crab cakes.
Yeah, Maryland seafood REIGNS as the BEST in the country!!
From blue crabs flown in from Thailand?
Facts 😂
and Baltimore is ranked 3rd in violent crime.
@@robertrobinson2649 3rd? I kind of assumed we were first. Baltimore is terrible. It's crime riddled and it's honestly disgusting. I drive through the city multiple times a week. The amount of times I've heard gunshots and the amount of times I've seen people leaning on the street after getting high as a kite is appalling. And the trash. The literal trash that lines the curbs is horrible. The benches say the greatest city on earth, and everytime I see them I think "yeah, ok. At one point maybe. But that time is long gone."
We're "Little America." Got a bit of everything - mountains, beaches, farmland, cities and suburbs :)
My dad used to call it, "America in Miniature."
Truth be to that
With all 4 seasons without outlandish weather.
Farmlands represent Garrett county Maryland’s best kept secret showing my Garrett county pride sence were never talked about
@@gd_gd_gd_gd Im from PG and as a kid was sent to a group home in Garrett County. Worst experience of my life. There ain't shit out there,. It's cold as fuck, Everybody dresses in Camouflage and Boots, Everybody drive a diesel truck and go hunting regularly. And it's straight white people . I seen maybe 2 niggas outside of my group home in my 6 months stay there. Which is crazy cause in PG there ain't no fucking white people.
Everyone: Are you north or south?
Maryland: Yes.
Always been north
We are
We’re northern! No, we’re southern! Wait, we’re eastern! Okay, we’re one, or the other, but not both. Which one? Who knows, who cares?!!?!
South we are below the Mason Dixon Line
Below the Mason-Dixon line, but the middle of the state is culturally northern. The rural eastern and western parts of the state are def southerners.
I would also argue Maryland has the best State Flag in the Union.
I'm kinda proud of the fact that we aren't part of the "dark blue flag with the round thing in the middle" club!
If by best you mean ugliest
I agree. It's the only one that is a coat of arms.
Coloradans want to fight you. Those kooks are very passionate about their state flag
apart from Hawaii
If America is the melting pot of the world, then Maryland is the melting pot of America.
Jon Freeman absolutely especially with some of the most diverse cities being located in Maryland especially for population size it’s quite fantastic.
Totally agree.
Yesssss I love that my state is crazy
@@Thrilller525 You guys sound like you've never been to New Jersey. I'd say we're winning that game.
new york city might have us beat
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.
When I was in my teens we visited Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts. They wanted to know what part of the south we were from. Some years later, we were in Williamsburg, VA and they wanted to know what part of the north we were from. We Marylanders can't win.
Also, as a Marylander, I would agree.
I suggest a road trip with stops in Ocean City, Baltimore and Cumberland MD. You’ll come back even more confused.
Ocean Shitty*
Bloodymore
And Saint Mary's City
Yeah seriously I grew up in western Maryland and was convinced we were southern I even have a bit of an accent and then I move near Baltimore and boom my world is shattered
@@racemylife1 I live near DC but go out to Deep Creek Lake a lot and it's practically like West Virginia/Appalachia in general. I love it personally.
Maryland: Where northern hospitality meets southern efficiency.
jayhafe nothing gets done and everyone is mad about it
@@mattallred Mad about _something_ at least. Doesn't even really matter what the "it" is.
So... no hospitality, and no efficiency? 😄
Chad Fisher
😉
Is Maryland really that bad? I'm asking as someone that's lived here my entire life. Because I've had a different experience. But it's also important to note that most Marylanders don't live in Baltimore.
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.
You forgot the most important area of Maryland, the Eastern Shore. Everyone from the western shore comes here for our lifestyle and beaches. Why do you think we charge y'all to come here but not to go back where ya came from?
You will find what kind of fields? Not for most of the past 20 years you won't. You are stuck in a 20th century time warp. What happened to the tobacco warehouses in Upper Marlboro or Hughesville? That shit flew away when you couldn't smoke in bars any longer.
I think you have your counties confuses as far as other states' cultures.
You will find what kind of fields? Not for most of the past 20 years you won't. You are stuck in a 20th century time warp. What happened to the tobacco warehouses in Upper Marlboro or Hughesville? That shit flew away when you couldn't smoke in bars any longer.
I think you have your counties confuses as far as other states' cultures.
@@ErnestAdkinsJr All that money goes to Annapolis buddy. lol Fellow Marylander here.
Forgetting abt pg and moco
Only people who live outside of Maryland have time to debate this. People in Maryland really don’t care.
exactly
Just like they don’t care to learn how to drive.
Right?? Lived here my whole life and never thought about it
Yawovi E. You fucking right we do
Yea
As a Marylander please don’t ever call me a southerner. If I’m anything it’s an East Coaster
Steven Rodriguez being southern depends on where you live in MD lol
ZeldasSword by that logic you could be southern anywhere in any state. Maryland isn’t particularly large relative to the other US states. Most of it bares no resemblance to the actual south. Regardless I’m speaking about Marylanders in general, I’m not gonna explain to everyone exactly where in Maryland I’m from in order to dictate whether or not I’m a southerner. So yes I stand by my point in saying that Marylanders as a whole aren’t southerners, and I think most would agree that saying we’re east coasters is a more broad and fitting term for us.
Steven Rodriguez I highly disagree. Western Maryland is very reminiscent of the south. More so than places I’ve been in the true south. The only place that “East Coaster” is remotely appropriate is on the Cost. Maryland is a small state, but probably the most diverse in terms of culture. Any over all label is going to be ignoring a large portion of the state.
Steven Rodriguez EXACTLY
I grew up in Maryland, now live near Cleveland. I've been told I have a "country accent" on occasion, a PA accent or Columbus accent on occasions. I always enjoy reminding folks from Northern Ohio that the Southern part of their state is not part of the South. Most news anchors sound like folks from Columbus or the D.C. area, not like Michigan or Cleveland.
Are you north or south?
Maryland: we don’t know so yes
pretty much how we view our selves
Texas: North? South?? NOPE. We are TEXAS.
We are like the South, but we are TEXAS.
Marylander: yes
We’re north literally everyone in Maryland knows this it’s just the people who surround us who doesn’t know this.
@@snxwyoasis5671 Not that cut and dry. I mean DC and Baltimore are northern for the most part but even they have a bit of southern influence, and western maryland in the mountains as well as eastern shore have a bit of a southern feel to them.
In Maryland you either live on the beach, in a city, or on a farm lmao at the end of the day tho you’ve had the best crab cakes. 💁🏻♀️
You forgot the trailer parks and shacks common in the western part.
You forgot regional parks... driving into my neighborhood it literally says welcome to Louise F Cosca Park
@@punkwrestle yeah i know about that I live in the western part of md
Except your crab cakes are made with imported crab meat. Unless you're buying whole crabs and picking the meat yourself. To all those who visit and go to restaurants for authentic Maryland bluecrab crab cakes, the restaurants all use imported crabmeat. There are some great crab cakes here but the meat isn't from the Chesapeake.
Around here its suburbs and hoods
Nobody:
Marylanders in the comments: “As A mArYlAnDeR”
So anyways as a Marylander I believe we are mid Atlantic
David Holcomb 2 “so anyways”
marylanders have the most state pride bc we're so irrelevant and that's the truth
@@frogandtoady irrelevant! how?
@@markjay7714 our state is... Small to say the least and uhhhh I was talking to a friend and they didn't even know what Maryland was lmfao
@@kokeech he is definitely not a knowledgeable person! I used to underate maryland but the state is a silent mover
I’m from Maryland and I can confirm that Maryland is a dinosaur.
A1 Face omg same
There nothing to do here In Maryland
Lil nugget Animations I thought that when I was younger, but there’s soooooo much. If you’re in the right spot. . I’m in Annapolis which is a short trip to pretty much anywhere worth going 🤷🏼♀️
Committee Review so much history- interesting people and an amazing artistic community! I love Baltimore, its got a bad wrap. I’ve had my fair share of scary encounters there, but so it goes I guuess
Kitty Ewing I live in The outskirts of westminster so I’m kind of close to Pennsylvania
We’re in a constant state of anxiety, thanks for asking.
We are honestly 😂😭
Let’s confuse everybody and do a road trip to every county
Anthony Harris are we still in the same state?
This is a good one 😂
Uhh yeah Baltimore County think about the difference between Dundalk and Hunt Valley
Come to Carroll County 🥰
@@chedrick78 yee haw
Maryland is very historic, where old Bay was born, and the best crabs I love being a Marylander born and raised
i was born in walkers village and heck yea i luv Maryland
Howard county 😎
@@sirkunk706 hmph…. i live in new market
I was born in Bawlmer but spent my adult life on the Eastern Shore. My maternal grandfather's family was from Oxford and Cambridge MD while my paternal grandmother's family hailed from Rock Hall. I guess my roots were calling me there. I prefer the Eastern Shore.
Also, unfortunately all our good crabs are sent to the expensive New York restaurants.
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.
Socially... depends on where in Maryland. The Baltimore-D.C. corridor is very northern culturally but the Eastern Shore and southern MD are very conservative and more southern in culture IMO.
@John Santos they have little slave houses still on some plantations near Warwick. Obviously not currently used.... Well hopefully not.
@@doggo1098 southern md is blue now. Steny Hoyer is ours and has been always. Calvert Co is probably more conservative but Charles and St Mary's are not.
@@memcnew95 agreed. Charles is most definitely blue but St. Mary's is questionable.
I would not say all of Maryland is definitely blue. Come to Allegheny, Frederick, Washington, and Carroll counties and I believe you'll find way more conservatives than liberals.
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.
I’m a Marylander and I definitely consider us midatlantic!
Where u from?
Frederick
@@Amby99 Me too. I grew up in Walkersville. It's definitely Mid-Atlantic.
Definitely Mid-Atlantic.
When you live in Maryland and you honestly don’t know either..
I gave up on thinking about that in like 4th grade lmao
Lived there most of my life. DEFINITELY mid-Atlantic, not South or Northeast.
The Mason Dixon line ring A BELL?🙃 It's the South.
I feel southern
Hi from Maryland. It's soooo cold here right now❄
Facts
Trish but it's warm today
Tomorrow will be a beautiful 90° summer day. And the day after that...snow.
@@juliet116OMG is this true! I don't have paper towels😖 Thats Baltimore😒! This turns on you.
I’m hip. But I still be enjoying those 52 degree days tho
Maryland does have a beautiful state bird. The Baltimore oriole.
That makes sense, considering that Maryland is vaguely bird-shaped.
And all Marylanders are half bird.
What?
Beautiful bird, shitty baseball team.
SufiFan62 Gestalt And the worst baseball team and scuzziest biggest city.
Mark McCann we try but at least the stadium food is good 🤷🏼♂️
@R. V. Datmir -Maryland Pit Beef.
61 years a Marylander, there are aspects of “the North” and of “the South”, depending on specifically where one is in MD. Mid Atlantic is best, though. Fun video, thanks :)
As a Marylander I say it also comes down to where you reside in the state. No 2 areas of this state share the same culture
As a Marylander, I say “Yes.Yes, we are.”
Thanks for clearing that up for us! Lol
Yes we are, what?
@Miko Jones We are all 3. Just depends on where you are.
@@wamum0510 right on brother
Miko Jones we just are
As a native marylander, I still have no idea whether Maryland is north or south lol
We're too North for the South, and too South for the North. Lol 😂 I just call us Mid-Adlantic (and home)
You're 100% the North
yes me too, but i feel like we’re more northern
Mood
We are too blue collar to be north imo
Maryland is technically the South. However, CULTURALLY speaking, we're not the South. We're MidAtlantic in that we possess both southern and northern aspects.
Maryland is super diverse culturally
Some parts feel like the south
Some feel like the north
And some feel weird
When it comes to learning about my home, the United States of America, this RUclips channel is my most entertaining source. Well done, Laurence.
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.
I've lived in Maryland my whole life. (25 years) I've grown to love it since I started driving and even more so when I hit 21. I've lived closer to Baltimore City and further out near Westminster. I think it's a pretty sweet central spot. Close to DC, 4 hour drive to NYC, 7 hour drive to North Carolina (a lot of us have family there for some reason). We have a pretty lively food & bar scene and "hip" downtown areas but also a ton of areas for outdoor activities like hiking, fishing, etc. Most people can be happy somewhere here. Maryland is Baby Bear, just right.
@@piinkpai ikr?
@@piinkpai ikr?
7 hours? It’s only 4 hours
Native Marylander here. Always taught we were in the South.
I'm from Baltimore I was always taught Maryland was a border state Annapolis was pro-confederate in Frederick Maryland was pro-union where in the middle that's why you got the cross red and white that represents the South and you had a black and yellow lines that represent the Union within a state flag
Maryland- America in miniature
They call us little America
As a Marylander with an interest in my state's history short answer: we are Mid-Atlantic. Long answer: At the beginning of the 1600s there were two main regions of British supported colonization, the north (new england) and the south (Virginia, Maryland). The Chesapeake region was where tobacco was native and it became our cash crop.
Through the next hundred plus years leading up to the revolution the region's were considered as such. North= new england. mid-atlantic= New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The south= maryland, Virginia. The deep south= Carolinas and georgia.
These destinctions were based on population centers and cash crops.
After the war there was aggressive expansion throughout the country with the Mason-dixon line dividing what was more "northern" and "southern". The north was defined by a much higher level of immigration, innovation, factories and generally major cities. The south had the best in cash crops such as rice, tobacco and cotton. This is where the first real split from Maryland and the south comes into play, as Baltimore was one of the top 5 largest cities and 2nd in immigration after New York. It was a northern city in a southern/slave state.
The civil war happens, Maryland sides with the union ( after Lincoln occupies Baltimore and threatens to sack it, and he replaces the state Senate. This is a little known fact but it had a massive effect on the war as Maryland might have sides with the confederacy if allowed to vote for it.) And the union wins, slavery in America is destroyed.
Maryland isn't really part of "the south" anymore as it fought them, it sided with the north and baltimore continues to prosper as the southernmost northern city.
Now coming to more modern times, what is considered south and deep south has changed. The culture has changed. Maryland is as different from Massachusetts as it is from Georgia. We have the Chesapeake bay, the largest bay in the nation, we have DC (shared with Virginia but it's on our side of the river, its rightful Maryland clay, screw you you Va) and we have formed our culture around these regions for the most part. To the west we even have a slice of Appalachian country. Also some might say we are part of the north because we are part of the megalopolis. I can get that but we are very different from the north it's just not the same.
I've spent time in the North and south. I've had new englanders call me a southerner and a Atlanta guy call me a yankee( ps dont do that, we are not new Yorkers). We are our own thing, the DMV (dc, maryland, virginia) is the mid-atlantic. An argument can be made for southern VA to still be the south, but anything north of richmond is definitely not the south.
As for Delaware... we don't care about Delaware. They started off as this little swedish colony, we forget about them, then they are like, "hey guys technically we are the first state." The DMV roles its eyes and says hang out with Pennsylvania.
This is my 2 cents on what region Maryland is.
It's hard to believe Maryland has enough land to have a cash crop. Isn't it just a giant beach?
;) Kidding!
This
David Kraatz well said!
Little side note: New Yorkers are NOT Yankees. They stole that identity from us New Englanders, the true and only Yankees. Btw, can you tell I'm a Masshole?
In any case, agreed: your assessment is clearly the most accurate.
Side note - The land Virginia gave to D.C. was returned in 1847, ruining the founders’ attempts to make a square city. So we don’t share DC proper with VA anymore.
Also, Maryland owns the entire Potomac River where it borders VA. So if you are on the VA side of the river, and you go in the river, you just entered Maryland.
I’m in Maryland and it is the most historical place I know
Maryland has long been called "American in Miniature." We literally represent all that is the United States from our varied topography (mountains, plains, swamp, rivers, valleys, ocean, etc.) to our varied cultures, industries, politics, and religions. It is an amazing state to live in as we are nestled right next to Washington, D.C., the power seat of the world, but are also close to New York, the cultural center of the country. We have the deep South, in our Eastern Shore, and the Northeast, in the Baltimore area. We are a complex state that embodies all the traits of the South, Mid Atlantic, and Northeast. Despite this, I think most of us consider ourselves to be the Mid Atlantic, geographically, and the South, politically, and the Northeast, culturally.
Betty Schueler - I agree with all you said except that we’re nestled next to DC. Because DC came from MD (mostly PG and MoCo) and a small part of Virginia (hence the acronym DMV). But your description was very accurate. I just wanted to point that out. 😂
Genius Munee Shakur She’s correct
@ Betty Schueler. Great history lesson. For a lot of the reasons you stated is why I love Maryland. I appreciate your knowledge. Thank you.
How is Maryland politically like the South? It’s been a solidly Democratic state for generations. Even its Republican governor has strongly challenged Trump. Culturally it feels like a bit of everything because people migrate to Maryland from all over the world for the jobs in and around DC - yet it has its peculiar localness in its mid-Atlantic accent, food (crabs, pit beef, Greek food, etc) sports and recreation like lacrosse, anything to do with water, and for rich people: horses.
You are talking about the DC and Baltimore metro areas. Outside of those areas the state becomes Republican--especially the Eastern Shore and Cecil County. That is where the state becomes southern to its core.
As someone that lives in Maryland, this is my perspective: Annapolis can be considered a Southern City. Baltimore is absolutely a Northern City. They are less than 40 miles apart. Maryland is wonderfully weird in that way.
I disagree. DC is a Northern city. Baltimore is more of a Southern City... Much more blue collar with an assortment of fried foods and fresh seafood.
I 100% agree DC is a “Northern City.” Baltimore is a blue collar city in the same way Pittsburgh is a blue collar city, and Pittsburgh is undeniably Northern, which is where I place Baltimore. But I think we can all agree Maryland is weird. :-)
@@RamblinPhoenix Definitely weird!
@@RamblinPhoenix I've lived in the Baltimore area my whole life and never really considered Maryland the South... But then I realized that even our local chain of convenience stores (Royal Farms) specializes in fried chicken. We definitely have leftover Southern tendencies.
annapolis isnt really southern. They kind of have their own Eastern shore vibe going on there.
A quibble: the "mid-Atlantic" accent doesn't refer to the Mid-Atlantic USA. It was an artificial accent, designed to be intelligible to Brits and Americans alike; hence, "mid-Atlantic." As in, the middle of the ocean.
@Magicstar123 4 It could but isn't.
@@bcubed72 I too call it Trans-Atlantic. I however have encountered one other person who called it Mid-Atlantic, but only the one.
So those of us who picked up our accent from TV, which sadly I did because I moved so much, have what is supposed to be an easily understandable accent by both Americans and British. That's the whole point of it? You learn something new every day!
@@bcubed72 it's 2019, it can identify how ever it wants.
More recently, the Midwestern accent of Chicago became the broadcasting standard (sometime after WWII, IIRC), America’s unofficial equivalent of RP. Not the Minnesota accent (which has some Scandinavian influence), but the Chicago accent.
I moved from Texas to Maryland about 16 years ago. I have grown to love the people and the land. ❤️
Great video
I'm a new subscriber to this channel and from Maryland. We are southern. We just the last state that is in that region. Certain words and phrases we use are southern. We only stayed in the union side because Lincoln declared marshal law and suspended habeas corpus. He also poured federal troops into Baltimore and other major cities and towns to keep control. I'm glad he did but at the time it was leaning towards the confederacy. It stopped Washington from being surrounded by southern states. We definitely have northern influences but that what make this state so unique.
I am henceforth referring to Baltimore as Baltimorous Rex.
With the current state of its inefficient government, poverty and outrageous murder rates, it should be called "Baltimorous Wrecks"!
I died when he said that. Lmao Baltimore is certainly vicious like a T. rex
Marylander here, we’re the border. We’re both and neither.
We're a liminal state.
Wicked Amoeba which translates to Maryland is Nothing!
Robert Rousseau It could also be interpreted as Maryland is everything!
And this is why Maryland has the most perfect weather in the U.S.A. Never too cold, but you still see snow. Never too hot, but it still reaches 90 degrees.
David BUTTT you’ve never been to my illegally annexed state. Hawaii has the best of all things,except prices.
David It was -2 degrees in Frederick 2 years ago
I disagree i'm in millersvill Maryland rn and Jesus Christ its always too hot or too cold and has NO middle ground
No.
I’m from Maryland and all I think about is why my parents chose it out of all the 50 states.
Northern Virginia where I grew up is also clearly not Southern. When you go south in Virginia, Virginia becomes more southern...like the opposite of Florida
I'd argue Virginia gets better the further south west you go.
I am from Northern Virginia. And though we're not culturally Southern. We're still "Southern". I'm sorry but Northern Virginia is not it's own separate place. It is still IN Virginia. Virginia is a Southern State. You can say we're not culturally southern. But you can't say you're not from a Southern state. Yes we're about 30 minutes from D.C. but we're not apart of D.C.
I misunderstood that sorry...
@@jacquelinemilom4164 Being from not-NoVa and living in NoVa now, NoVa is most definitely its own thing.
@@MrsRen I DO live in Nova. I was born and raised here. It may be "it's own thing" in terms of cultural WHICH I said by the way. But it's still IN a southern state. Being here all my life. And I consider myself from a Southern state. It's not it's own thing geographically. It's still in Virginia.
I think that Maryland along with parts of Virginia and the whole of federal district DC comprise an anomaly. They have their own melting pot culture that is not associated at all with the South or the North.
This right here.
This is a great answer. Very true as someone that's lived in this area my entire life. Maryland side.
bgregz we do it’s the DMV
Maryland: Exists.
Marylanders: We live in the northeast.
Everyone else: nah brah, you’re south.
Maryland Delaware Both Virgina's DC Is all the south and that's coming somebody way at the bottom In Texas
No one in Maryland claims the NE.
swarren925 I just did.
@@swarren925 me
Maryland sits below the mason-dixon line officially making it a southern state, it is also why we call it the "old line state"
Actually, Maryland is the "Old Line State" because during the Rev. War when Geo. Washington got his guys in a jam in NYC, outnumbered by the British, he & his gang had to make a run for it. The guys from Maryland said they would stay behind & give George & his buddies time to get away. They "held the line". The Maryland guys were all killed, their remains lost to history. A great save for George & the future USA. Merry Christmas!
Oh yeah
There is no "official" border between North and South. The Mason-Dixon line has not been meaningful as a cultural boundary for many decades. Trust me, I have lived in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia -- Maryland is NOT the South.
Maryland has a little bit of everything. We have some very southern type areas and some very northern type areas. But whatever you call it, it is its own little unique place and unlike any other state and I love it.
(By the way I hope you got to eat some Blue Crabs on your visit and kudos to you guys for going to what looks like in your picture, the renfest =p)
Yum, Maryland style crab!
sethrity yes I agree! I grew up in Baltimore city. I live in Carrol County now definitely very Southern our here! Cowboy boots everywhere for instance- probably a stereotype.
You know what the kids in high school eat at ball games? Tacos in a bag- basically open Doritos and dump in taco meat, cheese, salsa and other taco fixins you like. I’ve never heard of it before. I haven’t been brave enough to try it.
@@LilyoftheValeyrising I have family in Carroll county! It's deffiently a different vibe than Baltimore, but still nice. What I notice the most is the amount of camo styled items they have. It's on everything lol!
@@LilyoftheValeyrising I also agree. I recently moved out of mt. airy. Still in md though. If you go to main st go to old town cafe. Get the country chicken sandwich with gravy. Amazing
sethrity haha yes! They have camo days at my kids school. And drive your tractor to school day! Lol
I grew up in DC and I admit I was an adult before I realized the Mason-Dixon Line was *north* of Maryland. From inside DC, it always seemed clear that the South started on the other side of the Potomac-though having lived elsewhere and studied more, I'm not so sure anymore.
It just depends on how you define "South." If you define South as being those states that seceded and joined the Confederacy, then Maryland and West VA are northern states. If you go with the traditional Mason-Dixon Line definition, then Maryland and West VA are southern states. Most of the folks I've ever met from Maryland don't consider themselves to be either northern or southern and prefer the Mid-Atlantic identity.
@@remley8877 Don't you mean the War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance?
South of the Potomac isn't really South either--just to confuse you! The South, culturally, doesn't really begin until you get to the Richmond area. Northern Virginia, or NoVa, is more similar to D.C. and Maryland, while northwestern Virginia isn't, but isn't quite southern either. We are our own kinda people lol
@@spooniesarah Though that was somewhat less true when I was growing up in the '60s and '70s-when, of course, DC was also more southern in many ways.
@@spooniesarah I'd disagree, the delmarva peninsula is certainly southern, in fact most of the chesapeake bay coast is culturally southern, however as you head west it becomes northern quickly until you way out to Appalachia, which is its own thing.
I live in Maryland. It’s definitely in the North. Over 50% of restaurants I have been to in MD only have unsweetened Iced tea.
Yep. I literally just made this comment. Proves my point that Maryland is northern. Been here for 16 years and I still get upset when I order tea
I have been wondering this question forever thanks so much for this video
I say Mid Atlantic but I'm from Illinois so what do I know!? All I know is that the steamed crabs and a cold beer keep me coming back.
A bunch of us from San Antonio went on a business trip to Maryland and had this exact discussion. We settled on "Mid-Atlantic" as well. I found the residents to be forthright (like Northerners) and courteous (like Southerners).
Well put. I found Maryland that way. They seem to think and be quick paced in some ways like the North yet are friendly and affable like the South. Nice place overall, and pretty also.
You didn't make this evaluation as a "Southerner" did you? Being from San Antonio and all...
JB P San Antonio is definitely not Southern.
@Jim Elliott Linthicum :) We stayed at the Maritime Institute
@@BP-or2iu I am "from" Kansas but have lived a very long time in San Antonio.
I was born in Maryland. We have beaches, mountains, lakes, and rivers. High cost of living, high taxes, very diverse from super rich people in Annapolis, Bethesda and Chevy Chase to poor people in other areas. Good public schools, too much traffic, and several different accents in different counties. The state claims the following famous people: Goldie Hawn, Sylvester Stallone, Connie Chung, Maury Povich, Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black, David Burns from the talking heads, Edward Norton, William H. Macy, Montel Williams, Mike Rowe, Jada Pickett Smith, Kathy Lee Gifford, Toni Braxton, Julie Bowen, J C Chasez (N' SYNC), Ginuwine, Anna Farris, Joel and Benji Madden (Good Charlotte), Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Martin Lawrence, Joan Jett, Spike Jonze, Tori Amos, and Christina Milan.
Thank you a very enlightening walk through the history of Maryland state, I live in Maryland and it was very informative
Maryland has beaches to the east and mountains to the west.
And a shithole in the middle....
@@mongo5392 hahahahah what are you talking about... It's all a shit hole =]
When I was a kid, I thought _Maryland_ was an amusement park. Like Santa's Village or Six Flags.
ragnarocking lol I live right next to six flags in Maryland.
Try living here. We'll disabuse of THAT "amusement" part.
amusing. me, a marylander.
I have lived in Maryland for nearly 40 years and I consider it Mid Atlantic.
I’ve lived in Maryland all my life. This was incredibly insightful.
As a born and raised Marylander, I tell people we are technically part of the South, but it's the combo of northern and southern influences that makes us so awesome and unique.
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Definitely southern as a Midwesterner who moved to this region. I lasted 11 months in Maryland and over a decade in VA!! Maryland is 🥺
Charlotte Faraci Faraci Maryland is northern
Connor Russell not true
L.A. W. Nope
Long Live Maryland!!!
I have lived in Maryland all of my life, we are the "MidAtlantic", so in the middle on the east coast :)
Our excellent cuisine is definitely southern In style. When I was little we would say we have southern efficiency and northern hospitality.
LOL - that was a JFK quote about DC.... but the south is known for hospitality and the north for efficiency.... so... sarcasm.
Marylander here, and I have lived all across the state and I believe the majority of it is more southern in it's culture. Also it's technically below the mason-dixon line, I have always seen Maryland as southern.
You've lived there so you should know....sod the academics.
I'm a Marylander too. Because it's below the Mason Dixon line, it's a southern state. It's really that simple. Sure the politics have turned liberal, but location is what he's talking about...
Laurence is everyone's favourite geography teacher.
I got North I got South what you want
Maryland: yes
We in Baltimore don't care where Maryland is at because we are nothing like anywhere in the state.
Deflee
YES!!!!! You did my home state!!! We are DEFINITELY Mid-Atlantic!!! Go Ravens!! Go Orioles!!!
Go Terps too!
Unless you were born after 1999 Marylands team is The Redskins
@@bengill6764 Not in the 410.
@@KmusikOne too bad the colts left us in 84
@@bengill6764 Right. The Ravens came in 96.
That’s nice you visited MD. I highly recommend it. I’ve been living here since we came here from Dorset, England.
Maryland is famous for steamed Blue Crab. Even better paired with beer. Locally National Bohemian beer is the choice, but not my choice, I like a stronger beer like Yuengling.
Maryland is the northern south and southern north. Mid-Atlantic!!!
Loved here all my life, minus a few years here and there and I pronounce it as "Maralind"
It is in the South for three reasons aside from those in the video: 1) It's in the Black Belt, 2) You can get collards as a side for your crab cake/burger in Baltimore, 3) State anthem.
lol true, plus if you have been on the eastern shore and heard some of the accents, they don't sound like northern accents, and even in Baltimore the accents tend to be more southern
@@devincook1396 I went to a tour of the H.L. Mencken collection at the Baltimore Public Library and honestly some of the guide's diphthongs sounded semi-Australian to me.
@Guss Ruffee we fought with the north but we are not Yankees, we are mid Atlantic. Besides even I'd you are going by the war 1/3 of marylanders who fought in the war fought for the south, a dramatically higher fraction than any other northern state if I remember correctly. We are not New Yorkers is really what i am getting at.
@Guss Ruffee Amen to that. Not even if you cock your head sideways and squint your eyes does Maryland look like anything even approaching the South culturally. But, I'll give them a nod for having good taste if you can find decent collard greens there- but I have grave doubts that that's the case 😆
You can get collards in Detroit and Oakland, too.
Did you know that the 1st Maryland Infantry of the Confederate army fought the 1st Maryland Infantry of the Union army in 1862.
Culps Hill at Gettysburg
@@scottyennis2523 I was speaking of the Battle of Front Royal...this is the only time in United States military history that two regiments of the same numerical designation and from the same state have engaged each other in battle
I used to live in Bowie, MD which is somehow not the same state as Waldorf, MD... And also isn't the same state as Baltimore, MD.
Born and grew up in Maryland Love you for this video. !
As a life long Marylander, I've only ever heard Maryland referred to as a Southern state in history class.
Its not
As a Marylander i always learned it was a mid Atlantic state that sided with the union and was thus sorta North
As a Marylander and History undergrad major, yes Maryland is and will always be a Southern State.
@@jnyerere nah, I grew up here too. I have southern relatives in the actual southern states. We definitely are not that.
I was taught that we were how people saw us. People from the South saw us as the South and the Northerners saw us as the North.
You know you are in the North when restaurants don’t serve sweet tea
Jason, McDonalds has been serving sweet tea in New Jersey for many years. I don't think that criterion holds water anymore.
McDonalds serves something posing as tea. Definitely not proper sweet tea
Love listening to you!
I live in southern Maryland on the river. It’s very much “southern”, completely different from the rest of Maryland being very rural. And very southern country accents you think were from other states down south. Baltimore are northerners... Maryland has mountians, city and river/oceans and lots of country. Little America basically!
No desert.
No desert.
Connor Russell I live in saint Mary’s too. A transplant from Montgomery county. I love living down here!
Baltimore is in the house....
As a Marylander, I can assure you that our blue crab and we are not part of the south.
And yet I can assure that my crab cakes and I are southern
@@synone4013 idk why this made me laugh so hard😂😂 I had a peel-off mask and it hurt like hell!
Texas supplied Maryland with blue crabs from the gulf for many yrs because of the shortage in MD
Hey buddy, what 🦀 house are you getting your crabs from? They ain't all selling crabs from the Bay. Hon, maybe you had one too many Back River crabs that they be selling you some crabs from the south like from TX, LA or NC?
@@synone4013 ,I was born and raised in Maryland and came to Philadelphia in 1986.....could you have a drone send me a dozen bona fide Maryland crab cakes? ( lol) coming down in a week and heading right to the G and M Restaurant for a double crab cake platter.😉👍
Don’t be mean to the Midlands. We really aren’t southerners and we really aren’t northerners.
Daniel Walters As a Marylander here, we understand too well :(
Daniel Walters One of my great grandfathers was born in the West Midlands, Staffordshire to be precise, in a very tiny hamlet known as Ogley Hay - which is part of Cannock Chase.
This is a fun video - I've lived in MD for 20 years and never heard it described as mid-Atlantic. Most Marylanders i know consider it to be north east but mostly bc we tend to have a different culture than southern states
The northern part of Maryland is city like while the southern part is well...southern. Maryland is just diverse in many ways. I grew up in Baltimore and then moved to Calvert county a few years ago and let me just say, it feels like I moved to a different state.
Marylanders just love being from Maryland!!!!!! Love this!!
Is Maryland part of the South or the Northeast?
Maryland:Yes
Md is my home, few hrs away from mountains, few hrs away from the beach...beautiful state
The only reason (Maryland) didn’t become a confederate state during the Civil War, is because of Lincoln. He place (Maryland) under Habeas corpus as known as “ illegal confinement “. Lincoln was afraid that if (Maryland) left the Union then Washington DC would be completely surrounded by the south and he would be completely locked in. Maryland is and will always be a southern State. When slaves were looking to escape to Freedom, no slave looked to settle in Maryland or Delaware. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass both born in Maryland left Maryland for freedom. The goal was to get to Pennsylvania! They knew Maryland was pro south. The guy who Killed Lincoln John Wilkes Booth was from Maryland. Also Tobacco doesn’t grow in the North region. But Maryland sure did grow a lot of it during slavery. Tobacco was the state number one selling crop. Maryland is and will always be a southern state. The reason it doesn’t seem like it is because it’s the middle ground by civil war standards of Virginia being the closest southern state, but Pennsylvania always had been known as the north. Maryland fell right in the middle because of what I said Lincoln did.
The Union prison camp at Point Lookout had conditions that were as bad if not worse than Andersonville was for the Confederacy. The difference being that Point Lookout also held civilians.
Maryland WAS a Southern state. It is only Southern on its fringes now. Even during the Civil War it was not entirely Southern-leaning. The areas north and west of DC were increasingly northern-influenced even then. When Lee's army came through places like Frederick, they were expecting a welcome, but they got hostility, by and large. These areas were mostly settled later than Southern Maryland, by people coming down from Pennsylvania. There were more Germans in this group and fewer slaves. The Southern part was all in the eastern plantations closer to the Bay and the lower Potomac.
I'm not from Maryland. I'm from Southern Maryland. Big difference.
Your right its a very big difference, im a southern marylander too
I'm from the shore. It's another world opposed to across the bridge
whats the difference
I agree I live on the EasternShore!
john smith If you need to ask, you’re never gonna understand!
I'm in Maryland!!!! And I've never known where I belong. I just grabbed onto the Mid-Atlantic verbiage and clung to it.
Just wanted to say, you nailed the mid-Atlantic accent. You'd make a fantastic 1940s radio ad man!
As someone born and raised in MD, I definitely gave up on trying to figure out North vs South. I just go with us being a part of the DMV 😅
It's interesting to see this video since I was born in and live in Maryland just outside of Baltimore City in Brooklyn Park and I've always considered us to be Mid Atlantic.
Also a lot of people debate if DC were to ever be considered a part of one of its surrounding states and I say it would obviously be a part of Maryland!
I'm right down the road from you in Glen Burnie!!!!
DC is rightful Maryland clay, lol
@@maryjennings4913 really? I actually live right by Holy Cross cemetery! Back in the neighborhood behind Mom Wards and the carwash.
@@buddykaiser2380 I live down by BWMC, what should STILL be called North Arundel Hospital!!!
Writing from Arbutus!
Everyone saying Maryland is northern is crazy as hell there's a mason Dixon line that separates north and south
I’m from Ocean City Maryland. And we also kinda have an accent lol. Like instead of wash the dishes we say w-a-r-s-h the dishes. And instead of coupon we say Q-pond lol.
Im dead...born n raised in Rockville and i constantly get teased for saying WARSH
Maryland is just weird in a beautiful way. A little bit of everything in one small state. You can find northern attitude and southern kindness just by the region. But I often find a lot of people not from Maryland lately! :(