Is Delaware part of the North or the South? (house, neighborhoods)

[Ankhharu]

Originally Posted by red4tribe

No need for a snide remark. It was already pointed out to me and has been noted.

I get it. Laziness is all the rage. So If we stopped coddling people, people may actually put forth effort which goes against the grain.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by red4tribe

It seems like the northern part of Delaware, near Wilmington, tends to be northern but everything else has a southern tinge to me.

Welcome to the MidAtlantic. That's what it's all about.

[jmking]

Originally Posted by red4tribe

It seems like the northern part of Delaware, near Wilmington, tends to be northern but everything else has a southern tinge to me.

Oh, you're referring to tinges. Delaware, a former slave state is Mid-Atlantic, south of the Mason-Dixon.

[Borntoolate85]

Originally Posted by jmking

Oh, you're referring to tinges. Delaware, a former slave state is Mid-Atlantic, south of the Mason-Dixon.

The Transpeninsular Line is often thought of as an eastward extension. There is a development in Fenwick Island called "Mason Dixon Annex" about a half mile west of the shore on Route 54. And the Ohio River is commonly thought of as a westward extension (along with the southern border of one West Virginia county between the SW corner of PA and the Ohio river. Also: New Jersey had more slaves than Delaware in 1790, and in 1860, New Castle County had no more slaves. It was a Middle Colony and commonly considered part of the Middle States before Mid-Atlantic became a term. Sussex and Kent counties are only southern in the way Cumberland and rural Salem counties are southern: a few small towns and one moderately small city (Vineland-Millville/Dover) that are largely agriculturally based and share a coast with the Delaware River, and coastal Sussex county is a lot like coastal Cape May with the beach resorts. And Delaware never shared a border with a CSA state like the other so-called "Border" states did (and Ohio and Pennsylvania prior to WV's statehood did in fact border a confederate state). You can grow Crepe Myrtles and some Southern Magnolias in both places, but never experience the stifling hot summers and thunderstorms are not as common as they are from VA southward, and spring can be cool due to the cold ocean/bay. The census merely placed Delaware in the south because it was first a small state and secondly "sits on Maryland's back". You can drive to NYC on a good day from New Castle County in two hours (and Center City Philly in just 30 minutes from Wilmington); you can even have breakfast in Wilmington and lunch in Boston even via driving! where in the south can you drive to either Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, OR Miami in two hours?

[jmking]

Wouldn't take too long to drive to Richmond, Va either. Remember, that was the Capitol of?

[Pine to Vine]

Originally Posted by jmking

Delaware, a former slave state is Mid-Atlantic, south of the Mason-Dixon.

Wrong. It's east of the Mason-Dixon Line. Google it.

[longneckone]

Originally Posted by 02blackgt

North. Anyone who says south needs an IQ test. Personally I consider anything below DC's Virginia suburbs to be south. Virginia DC suburbs and up is north.

We don't really care what you think. I can be just as rude as you.

[gwillyfromphilly]

Originally Posted by longneckone

But you are not from Delaware. The is certainly a reason we down here in Sussex County are known as Southern Delaware.

I'm from the Delaware Valley.

The is certainly a reason we down here in Sussex County are known as Southern Delaware.

It's because of geography, not culture.

[red4tribe]

Originally Posted by Ankhharu

I get it. Laziness is all the rage. So If we stopped coddling people, people may actually put forth effort which goes against the grain.

Behaving with civility is the same as coddling?

[NJBoy3]

Please don't pick on scrapple. We have that for dinner up here in southern NJ. Red cabbage and mashed potatoes.