why is virginia and many northeast  states considered southern when they are geographically up north?
157439
Because it was part of the SOUTH (1) During the division which led to the Civil War (it joined a newly created country called the Confederate States of America) and (2) It is part of the distinct culture which makes up the SOUTH.  Historically Virginia had much more in common with the states south and west of it than any state north of it.\n\nAnd besides it's not "up north".  Virginia's actually right in the middle as far as the Mexican/Canadian borders go.  But on the east coast, it's very much in the southern half of the coast.
266663
Because the north needs this myth to justify the slaughter of 1/4 of southern men by The American army. ( as well as 5/8 of the rape)The yankee empire should give the south back to the confederacy, and they should start with georgia.
401992
The Mason Dixon line is up by Baltimore.  People in the deep south (mississippi, New Orleans, Alabama, etc) do not consider us Southerners and I live in Southern Maryland.  I consider where I live to be the south because of some of the trees we can grow here.
598178
Mason and Dickson were Geographers who surveyed the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, this became known as the Mason Dickson line.\n\nPennsylvania is the southern most Free state and Maryland is the northern most Slave state so it was used as a guide to who is in whose territory North or South.\n\nIt was not the line that separated the USA and CSA because Maryland did not Break off from the Union....Washington D.C. is south of the Mason Dickson, It shows the boundary where people south of it consider themselves southern and north of it consider themselves northern.
107564
Consider this- the North had the factories and the ability to ship goods produced by those factories for export, the South had plantations with a lot fewer ways of shipping the goods (cotton, etc.) to the factories where the cotton, etc. was made into other things(virtually no way to export goods).
356039
Regional naming of the United States is from the viewpoint of the eastern part of the United States.  Thus, the states you named are the Mid-West part of the country from and East Coast perspective.\n\nThe reasons for the East Coast perspective on regional naming is two-fold:\n1) The United States Capitol is on the East Coast\n2) The majority of the population movement in the United States was from east-to-west.
356847
It is a State too!\n\n"West Virginia is a state of the United States in the region of Appalachia, generally known as The Mountain State. West Virginia broke away from the Commonwealth of Virginia during the American Civil War and was admitted to the Union as a separate state on June 20, 1863."
749024
It may have something to do with the fact that most major events in the United States' history took place on the East Coast.
942242
The Souther Colonies consisted primariy of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.\n\nColonists wanted gold, land, and resources. The biggest reason however was plantations. Many wanted to reap huge profits from growing a variety of crops including tobacco and cotton. Georgia was a colony where English debtors were sent. Though it always acted as a "buffer" between the English and Spanish (Florida).
959688
New Hampshire's population is larger than Mississippi's :) Electoral representation is determined by the size of a state's population, not its geographical size.
1006330
I'm not from the south...we conservatives are everywhere...that must be very spooky for you.  And, Jesus is definitely not limited in his geographical locations..\n\nAnd America would have ceased to be long ago without Republicans..I think we could all do without toothless rednecks.\n\n\nand p.s. dopey....ask an African American this question....the South liked slaves..remember?  And, if you know your history, you would know that sides changed...the South was the left then..when it didn't make any sense.
945147
This was established shortly after the Articles of Confederation. A large number of northern states lagged behind the population of the South. Whites in the South then outnumbered the number of whites in the north. When it came to determining representation in the United States Congress, the southern states wished to count their slaves as well which would give them a largely disproportionate representation. The northern states argued that their state of life-long servitude made them less than men, and to count them as a man would undermine the entire reason for a slave system in the first place, thus opening the way for the radicals already calling for abolishment of slavery a hole to maneuver their agenda through Congress. The southern states, not wishing to give up any comfortable lead in the House then made a compromise that every slave would count as 3/5 of a man. This still gave southern states their majority (later to change despite large number of slaves) while giving northern states the breathing room necessary to enact legislation that was in their own interest.
256070
We know that North is 'this side up' because we MADE it that way.  It really was a matter of chance that we decided to make this side our North.  If we wanted to, however, the Southern hemisphere could just have easily been north (see the link).  But our regular map became the convention, instead.
186150
No, because a peninsula is "surrounded" by water. The key here is that even though the western part of New Jersey is bordered by the Delaware River, the width of New Jersey is wider than the river, so you really can't call it being "surrounded by." If this were a peninsula, then wouldn't eastern North America be a peninsula since it has the Mississippi to the west ?\n\n"Peninsula" comes from the Latin "almost island". Florida is a classic example of a peninsula. It's connected to the mainland by only a small strip of land, clearly surrounded on three sides.\n\nHope this helps.
711907
i'm not 100% sure, but i'm taking US history and we were talking about that and it comes from a spanish term very similar to the term "yankee" and i'm not entirly sure what it means or how its spelled its pronouced "yawnkee" i believe.  that was the term for the Union and since the South wasn't a part of the Union in the Civil War then i guess thats why the North was referred to as "yankees".\n\nI hope that helps.
737696
Virginia, a southern state on the Atlantic Ocean, can be divided into five geographical regions;
1016612
In the South, traditions are passed on over the years-which is  why a lot of people that aren't from the southern region believe we are "backwards". We don't sit around crying because we lost the Civil War, but we do still honor the Confederate soldiers who lost their lives in it. From the moment we are born, we are taught that we are different from the rest of America, a difference we embrace and take great pride in. Southerners have their own way of speaking, acting, relaxing, and eating--we are truly a seperate culture. Yankee can be a derogatory term, but it is usually just a statement of fact. My mom has lived in the South for over twenty years, after spending the first half of her life in Ohio, and I still call her a Yankee (affectionately of course). Southerners know we are different, and we love the fact that we are, and that few people from around the nation truly understand why we are the way we are. So if you come down here and get called a Yankee-just take it in stride. We're not trying to insult you (usually), we're just recognizing that you ain't the same as we are. Y'all come back now, ya hear?