Yeah--since they were a border state during the war, they were divided in their sympathies.? You won't find much of this in Western Maryland since they're so removed from the rest of the state, or in the DC metro area where a lot of the residents are not natives.? The other state where this seems to be prevalent is Missouri--which on a map doesn't seem to be that Southern, but it stems from sympathies during the war. Pennsylvania can fit into either the Northeast or the Mid-Atlantic, which is kind of odd since we don't border the Atlantic, but I don't think many Marylanders would consider themselves part of the Northeast. State lines don't often agree with how people feel or what they consider themselves to be part of. In the 1780's settlers in my part of the state were feeling?ignored by the colonial government (some things never change!) and tried to "secede" from the rest of Pennsylvania and form a new colony called Westsylvania, that also would've included Western Maryland, what is now West Virginia, some of Virginia and part of Kentucky.? That's a geographical area that makes sense as a region--it would be interesting to know how that would've turned out. New England is just six states--Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Connecticut. --Debra -----Original Message----- From: Tracy <better_than_good@yahoo.com> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 5:15 pm Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Grits/Maryland/PA --- Debra wrote: > Well, a lot of Marylanders consider themselves to be Southerners.? > Not so much in Western Maryland, which, much like Western > Pennsylvania, doesn't have a lot in common with the rest of its > state. ****************** Wow, I would never have imagined that. I would have thought they would be "northerners" or "new englanders". I am not a geography whiz. I'm lucky to be able to pick the US of A out on an atlas. But I can read a map! Geography was one subject I was never taught in school. tracy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Since I lived in New England for 38 year and was born in PA, it was not considered to be anything but Mid Atlantic. Connie -----Original Message----- From: dorner1065@aol.com To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 6:08 pm Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Grits/Maryland/PA Yeah--since they were a border state during the war, they were divided in their sympathies.? You won't find much of this in Western Maryland since they're so removed from the rest of the state, or in the DC metro area where a lot of the residents are not natives.? The other state where this seems to be prevalent is Missouri--which on a map doesn't seem to be that Southern, but it stems from sympathies during the war. Pennsylvania can fit into either the Northeast or the Mid-Atlantic, which is kind of odd since we don't border the Atlantic, but I don't think many Marylanders would consider themselves part of the Northeast. State lines don't often agree with how people feel or what they consider themselves to be part of. In the 1780's settlers in my part of the state were feeling?ignored by the colonial government (some things never change!) and tried to "secede" from the rest of Pennsylvania and form a new colony called Westsylvania, that also would've included Western Maryland, what is now West Virginia, some of Virginia and part of Kentucky.? That's a geographical area that makes sense as a region--it would be interesting to know how that would've turned out. New England is just six states--Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Connecticut. --Debra -----Original Message----- From: Tracy <better_than_good@yahoo.com> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 5:15 pm Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Grits/Maryland/PA --- Debra wrote: > Well, a lot of Marylanders consider themselves to be Southerners.? > Not so much in Western Maryland, which, much like Western > Pennsylvania, doesn't have a lot in common with the rest of its > state. ****************** Wow, I would never have imagined that. I would have thought they would be "northerners" or "new englanders". I am not a geography whiz. I'm lucky to be able to pick the US of A out on an atlas. But I can read a map! Geography was one subject I was never taught in school. tracy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.