Is Baltimore and DC culturally part the South or Northeast?

[One]

What I wanna know is why is there a midwest but not a mideast?
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There is, it's Iraq, Iran, Syria, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

 

[Rice'N Beckford]

*waits for impending stampede of nike boots*

New balances**

 

[newworldafro]

History, aside Bmore and DC are the Northeast.

Matter fact I cringe when I see Maryland lumped in with the southeast. It hasn't been the south since the first Metro train hit the state

As an east coaster, I don't feel there's ANYTHING relatable culturally at all.


The first time I heard DMV slang like "mug", "kill", "on my muva" "moe"...."jone...." foe" ....."roe"... "boe".... I was like "The fukk is this made up babble?!! "

Some like some southern drawl shyt.

Maryland and DC are funny like that....but culturally and with the Metro....and with the Amtrak that is busiest in the U.S. shuttling people between DC and NYC...it is without a doubt a Northeastern area. Mason Dixon is for history buffs to discuss. Today it is the Northeast/East Coast.

 

[NeilCartwright]

In the Antebellum era Maryland was definitely considered southern. They were one of the Union states that held slaves and John Wilkes Booth considered himself a southern nationalist and was from Maryland

Maryland *was* deff considered the south.

I got fam from Maryland whos ancestors were slaves up there

 

[How Sway?]

Everybody keep saying that. And what the fukk is in Delaware? I always think Rhode Island and Delaware are the same. Small irrelevant ass states.

Delaware has the perfect location if you think about

It's smack dab between nyc and dc and close to philly.

I'm surprised it hasnt been on the radar like that though

I could image making big return on investment in Delaware

 

[KodeBlue]

Country and Southern aren't synonymous, tho. Geographically, most of Maryland is backwoods. Delmarva might as well be South Carolina.

The same applies to most states. Upstate NY is backwoods, South Jersey is backwoods. The overwhelming majority of Marylanders live in the Baltimore area or the DC area.

 

[H.I.M.]

All Black folks in the U.S. descend from the same common culture/lineage...and the cultural/regional differences are trivial overall.

But SUB-culture wise...DC & Baltimore are too distinct to be put into a regional box...they're their own entities culturally....even from eachother.

Even a city like Philly which yall put into a "eastcoast" box is clearly culturally distinct from NY'ers, folks from Boston, Jersey, CT etc.

 

[BigMan]

Northeast but big southern influence

 

[AB Ziggy]

The DMV is quite NE but with some Southern influence . But geography doesn't explain the whole story.


But then again, the very bottom tip of Cape May, New Jersey for example is far below the Mason-Dixon line and parallel to Northern Virginia, which is like half NE and half Southern. Yet

 

[Shadow King]

What I wanna know is why is there a midwest but not a mideast?
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Probably because the country was built on the East Coast and stretched west...there was a time where places like Michigan and Illinois were considered west.

 

[Asicz]

Baltimore= Air force Ones
DMV= New Balance 990s

 

[TripleAgent]

From when I can remember until the No Limit/Cash Money Era, Baltimore was mini New York. Music, dress, slang, everything. Then it was like mini NO. Now, it's a weird mix. Us 30+ cats are more NE than the younger cats.

 

[Off the Onion]

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

From when I can remember until the No Limit/Cash Money Era, Baltimore was mini New York. Music, dress, slang, everything. Then it was like mini NO. Now, it's a weird mix. Us 30+ cats are more NE than the younger cats.

I think social media and the internet in general blurred the lines of regionalism. Now you got New York rappers mimicking southern dudes (looking at asap Rocky and desiigner).

But yeah we definitely grew up on east coast hip hop during the 90s.

 

[KodeBlue]

Dude is from the Eastern Shore. Nobody from Baltimore has heard of that nikka before that song, and nobody has heard from that nikka since that song.