It’s weird because I’m a native Marylander and I’ve always considered it the South. It really depends on where you live in the state. Near DC or Baltimore will feel very northern due to change over time but isolated areas like Southern MD, Western MD or the Eastern Shore will feel very Southern…
The Mason dixon line really is not a great metric to judge if a state is north or south considering it was drawn up before america was a country by 2 British guys. I'd say did meryland officially succeed from the union ?!! No meryland didnt !!! Is Washington d.c. bounties physically in Maryland!?? Yes it is❤😂😂❤❤
Maryland is in the South.. but it is Border South, so it has some Northern qualities. And because of all the transplanted government workers who live in suburban DC.. it houses a unique sub-culture of bureaucrats. But yeah, it's below the Mason-Dixon, it is in the demographic Black Belt, and was a slave state at the start of the Civil War. Basically all the criteria that defines the historical South. I love Maryland.
Maryland probably would have joined the Confederacy if Lincoln had not imposed martial law. It was originally a southern state but it became more northern after it adopted a new state constitution abolishing slavery in 1864. Since then, there has been an increasing influx of people from places other than the American south. Today it is a state with both northern and southern characteristics.
Very thorough and accurate video. Historically Maryland was a much more distinct southern state. The impact that Washington DC had can not be understated. It's influence from people all over the country, as well as late 19th century immigration, moving there changed that historical southern identity. Places like Southern Maryland, and the Eastern Shore have still kept that identity to this day.
I grew up in Prince George’s County MD & I can tell you that most of the folks in my area sound southern, mostly due to the fact that DC is literally across the street & VA is only 15 minutes away.
from Eastern Shore my hometown is Salisbury MD and always always been southern to me I live out in California and my friends asked where I'm from Eastern Shore Maryland and they say Baltimore I tell them nope across the bay bridge say I lived most southern ya can get in Maryland
Great video! I'm a native Marylander too. I always considered MD a northern state and will fight it to the end lol. Not too long ago I corrected some New Yorker talking on his phone saying he was down south. What's funny is I have the Baltimore accent which I think to Northerners sounds southern because they don't know any better.
When I moved to Georgia in 2001 from Baltimore. My father side of the family was so put off by how outspoken and blunt I was. They were also strangely relieved that I didn’t speak like a southerner because I thought it would take me far lol. I feel like southern culture puts a lot of emphasis on saving face whereas up north if we feel a certain way we speak up more candidly.
I'm 7th generation Tennessee who just moved to Southern Maryland. I'm constantly told this is Southern but it's not what I recognize as the heritage of pleasant gracious hospitality and manners. What is pointed at here as Southern culture seems honestly to be more a matter of store bought cultural signifiers and personality reinforcement, like t-shirts with printed slogans images and whatnot. Its just lionization of 'Southern', image and flags etc... for instance the average tractor supply in Maryland will sell yall a Music City Nashville hat made in Bangladesh with the daggone Tennessee flag BACKWARDS on it. Go see if you doubt me.
This is an interesting question since it seems that in every region of the United States (with the exception of new england) there is debate as to which states actually belong to those regions
Most of the people (here in GA) would laugh at Maryland being part of the south. Kentucky? They would debate that one. But Maryland they would laugh at it. BUT my mother grew up some in Maryland and she tells me it is the south. So...I get it. I'm not gonna argue with someone about where they live when I actually have never been to that state. The only person I would argue with about this stuff that I have seen..is the person I watched say NC is not southern. NC is MORE SOUTHERN than GA at the moment by a landslide. GA is not the place to go anymore if you want a true blue Southern experience. Now South GA has some pretty "backwoods" places and no I'm not in Atlanta I'm south of it. My family..dad's side is from NC. And I live amongst so many of those types of people and love them very much so it's not a criticism either...I'm just saying what other people across the country think of them. My dad's side were as country as you can be. I'm talking many generations of being in NC. So that person on RU-vid that said that...he is wrong..I'd argue him!
Maryland is south , if you look at the mason dixen line but in reality , they split some.where union ( my great great grand father ) However what happened on Pratt street Baltimore , they fought against union soldiers . in truth Marylanders don't like any governments at all .
Kentucky is 100% the South, it invented bluegrass music (Bill Monroe), bourbon, is full of Southern accents, eats Southern food and largely considers itself Southern. There's no other region it fits into other than the South. Hell Jefferson Davis was born in Kentucky. Its a Southern state.
Great job on the video. A born and bred central Marylander who has moved around since, I always tell people that while technically a Southern state (south of the Mason-Dixon) Maryland very much has Northern sensibilities. I consider my myself a Northerner with some Southern tendencies.
I had someone argue with me that was from Maryland saying the opposite. I can see both points, I guess, but to say it's not southern at all seems silly
The never ending debate, the endless fall back to the MD Line, ad nauseum. Demographics change, cultures change. The MD Line is really not relevant. I am from Baltimore, and people from Connecticut and Massachusetts both have asked me what part of Jersey I'm from. For me, parts of MD are quite southern, but the BW metro is definitely northern in character. I know this settles nothing, but I have never viewed myself as southern. Nothing against the South at all, I live in Pensacola, but for me, my area of MD is much more northern than southern.
Virginia and the Carolinas don't consider it the south. I grew up in Baltimore and Baltimore County. I've also been to Prince George's and Montgomery county. Nothing southern about the state as a whole. It's the mid-atlantic and we have more in common with Delaware and Pennsylvania than southern states.
I love the video, but just for the record, there are vast differences between regions in the US. Yes, we are one country, but the differences will shock some. My family is from Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. My sister recently moved to Chicago for a new job. She was shocked to find that there isn’t really any sweet tea readily available there when everywhere else we had ever been (all in the South) had sweet tea everywhere. That image you depicted of “sweet tea” is not sweet tea. Simply putting sugar in your tea isn’t sweet tea. It’s gotta be brewed in there while it’s hot. Manners are, in fact more of a Southern thing, i.e. “yes ma’am, yes sir.” While you may hear those levels of respect in other parts of the country from time to time, it’s not as widespread as it is in the South as we’re taught these things from a very young age. My sister who moved to Chicago has been told many times to stop saying “yes ma’am” because it makes the person feel “old.” Down here we say “yes ma’am” and “yes sir” to anyone, whether they’re older or younger than ourselves. So while there are manners everywhere, there are different types of manners and levels of manners in different regions, especially in the South. You do live in a border state though, so I imagine you see a mix of both.
As a western Marylander (Garrett county) I would like to formally ask that we secede from Maryland and join West Virginia ...thanks and hey hey hey goodbye 👋🤣🤣🤣
The S.S. Spain was listed on the Norway-heritage website here: www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=spain. The S.S. Spain was the ship my great great grandfather came across the ocean on, leaving out of Liverpool and landing in New York.
Maryland is far from the Southern Mentality, Maryland also was Union Territory and the only Union State that allowed slavery...weird history of that state
I never understoond how maryland would be classified as southern but not missouri, and missouri as a whole has a STRONGER southern influence than maryland.
@@CopperKettleFarms Maryland and missouri were both slave holding border states apart of the union; St louis was a split state, Just like maryland in that sense, However, Missouri started as a western state with strong southern influences, Maryland, even though before 1865 was a southern state, It always had STRONG northern influence due to the fact that it already had a high percentage of ethnic whites, Catholic haven, and had a LOT of textile mills.
Maryland is a southern as a cream cheese bagel...NC here...we have Yankee areas too. Cary, Charlotte, Raleigh, the coast....wait we will be bagelfied soon too...southern culture is a dying culture
