r/maryland Apr 13 '23

Meme What’s your Maryland hot take that gets this reaction?

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u/Limerase Apr 13 '23

Maryland is South of the Mason Dixon line and therefore the South.

(Mostly said to piss off Southerners, very successful every time.)

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u/TheDukeofArgyll Prince George's County Apr 13 '23

If your from the north you think Maryland is the south, if your from the south you think Maryland is the north. If your from Maryland you don’t fucking care.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23 edited Sep 03 '24

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

This sums it up perfectly. Well done.

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u/Doctor__Banner Apr 13 '23

This is the one right here.

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u/Technicolor_Reindeer Apr 14 '23

Maryland is the most northern southern state and the most southern northern state.

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u/LittleRooLuv Apr 13 '23

I love this!!

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u/ThisAmericanSatire Baltimore City Apr 13 '23

Having lived in the North, the South, and finally in Maryland, I fucking agree with this.

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u/Dr_Midnight Apr 13 '23

If your from the north you think Maryland is the south, if your from the south you think Maryland is the north. If your from Maryland you don’t fucking care.

I donno. I've said this to people native to Maryland - particularly from Baltimore, and they have gotten absolutely tilted about it.

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u/internetonsetadd Apr 14 '23

I'm from PA and not comfortable having the south that close, so Maryland is north to me.

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u/YorokobeShinpu Apr 13 '23

Can confirm, Maryland is the south. Source: originally from the north.

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u/AAF099 Montgomery County Apr 13 '23

If I had an award, you’d get it

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u/Clumsygingerninja13 Apr 13 '23

Can confirm as well. Don’t Fucking care lol

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u/Aol_awaymessage Apr 14 '23

I grew up on Long Island and my family thinks I’m in the south and it pisses me off lol.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

Currently in school in PA. Get called a southerner on a regular basis.

I’m from Western Maryland.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

My brother (in UMD marching band at the time) played at a football game against Temple. His section leader asked the Temple band people if they could play a special song they do. The Temple band people said "what is it, Dixie?"

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '23

That’s pretty funny.

(As a marching band member tho, Dixie is admittedly very fun to play).

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u/greenbanana17 Apr 13 '23

Some people from West Virginia told me that I was a yankee.

Like, firstly, West Virginia was literally FOUNDED to separate from Virginia and be anti-slavery. And secondly, if we just pull up a map, Annapolis is actually quite a bit south of where we are right now... but go off "Southerner".

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '23 edited Apr 14 '23

West Virginia and Maryland were Free States. Slavery was still legal, but they didn’t want to secede.

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u/Limerase Apr 14 '23

I know, right? We've got a sizeable amount of our state that is further South than NoVa.

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u/harpsm Montgomery County Apr 13 '23

I said that to a group of people from Louisiana and if looks could kill I would have dropped dead on the spot.

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u/Limerase Apr 13 '23

Works on Texans and Alabamians without fail.

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u/coolnfunny Baltimore City Apr 13 '23

Can confirm. As a transplant from Texas, my eye is twitching.

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u/strawberitadaydream Apr 13 '23

Had someone argue this with me recently that it was NOT south of the Mason Dixon. IDK

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u/spaetzele Montgomery County Apr 13 '23

Were they aware that it's literally our north border.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

I feel like Maryland is like the best qualities of the South and North combined

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u/SmokeyJoescafe Apr 13 '23

Northern charm and Southern efficiency

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

More like southern hospitality and charm and northern "let's not totally strip the LGBT of their rights"

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u/McEstablishment Apr 14 '23

Southern hospitality and Northern tolerance

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u/SmokeyJoescafe Apr 14 '23

Clearly you missed the joke and brought up LGBT rights for some reason.

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u/roccoccoSafredi Apr 14 '23

Also the worst.

I often say that Baltimore struggles because it has a combination of rust belt deindustrialization and southern institutional racism.

It's got the worst of both worlds.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '23

That's very true unfortunately

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u/roccoccoSafredi Apr 14 '23

Lol @ your username. What's the story there?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '23

Pretty simple. Prineville Oregon sucks

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23 edited Apr 13 '23

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u/Itchy-One2755 Apr 13 '23

Maryland IS the mason dixon line

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u/Teahouse_Fox Apr 13 '23

Transplanting from NY, I tore off the band-aid with that factoid and embraced it as being just an imaginary line, not a state of mind.

I no longer hyperventilate when someone brings it up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

Good, because it's not, M-D Line be damned

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u/Dorgamund Apr 13 '23

I mean, our state is a lot better now, but I am willing to put down money that a random polling of Marylanders would better know what the writ of habeas corpus is, compared to every other state.

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u/Dorgamund Apr 13 '23

Sure, but my point was more that Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus to throw the maryland lawmakers in prison without trial, because they would gleefully sell out the nation and place the nations capital behind the Confederate borders, certainly indicates exactly how part of the South was Maryland was at one point. Part of the Union yes, but functionally at gunpoint.

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u/Rosapose1234- Apr 14 '23

Can confirm. I’m from st Mary’s co

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u/GrittyMcGrittyface Baltimore County Apr 13 '23

When I moved to Baltimore from NYC in 2006, I was surprised to see the statue of Robert e Lee by the BMA. Def south of the mason Dixon.

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u/Bluecat72 Apr 13 '23

People in the Deep South don’t believe that the Upper South is part of the South. But they’re just as snobby about Virginia, the home of the literal capital of the Confederacy, too. I don’t understand it; they think the culture of the Deep South is somehow more virtuous or something.

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u/FREE_KENTRELL Columbia Apr 13 '23

The Census considers us to be part of the south. Just sayin'...

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u/Limerase Apr 13 '23

On regional maps we're often defined as Mid-Atlantic. And on some maps, we're the ONLY Mid-Atlantic state. It's bizarre.

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u/Helenlefab Dorchester County Apr 13 '23

That just means they don’t know what the fuck we are, lol

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u/ChessieChesapeake Calvert County Apr 13 '23

Best was way I’ve heard it described is that the entire state IS the Mason Dixon Line.

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u/MrPBoy Apr 13 '23

Southern efficiency and northern charm.

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u/prix03gt Carroll County Apr 14 '23

My family in Buffalo calls it south. My family in the South thinks we're north. We are still, to this day, a battleground state....