Are DC, Maryland, and Delaware in the Northeast or the South?

[Mr. Smith]

Voted for Dewey over Truman, have stupid fast-talking accents instead of good, smooth-like molasses ones, never joined the Confederacy, no random billboards with Bible verses, and the development is off.

Oh no, everything except the Frostburg part of Maryland is culturally durnyankee country.

[Mr. Smith]

They're all Northeastern states imo.

Being on I-95, Acela, safe Dem since 1992, colleges generally being in Northeastern conferences, Baltimore and Washington not really following the development arc of Southern cities, Delaware pretty much just being a suburb of Philadelphia, density of a Northeastern state, they weren't part of the Confederacy, not really part of the Solid South, etc.

The lack of forests in DE/MD (east of Hagerstown anyway) makes them Southern. Also the wide open fields. There are so many variables to choose from.

Wait, the south lacks forests?

Don't worry, it's been McQueened for topography fail.

[Mr. Smith]

South geographically, but it's more divided culturally.

Even that's dubious given how flatland Maryland, Delaware, and DC all usually freeze in the winter, whereas the flat South is supposed to rival Not-Sierra California and Hawaii for most disappointingly warm winters.

They are also far less muggy, another characteristic of The South.