Literally 6% of surveyed self-ID'd Southerners said Maryland was the South. Maryland is doing Workers' Party of Korea election numbers on Not Being Southern
Cultural geography is defined by shared identity. People who identify as Southerners don't consider Maryland to be the South. Ergo Maryland is not in the South, QED. It's not anymore complicated than that folks. You can argue about all sorts of other factors but Southerners themselves say no *shrug*
Like they went and asked the bouncer at the Southern Club if Maryland could get in and the bouncer said "no." It's not a scholastic exercise. The passport was denied
Oh—listening to Carl Sandbergs Lincoln biographies made it clear that if Baltimore could keep a secret it would have ended Lincoln’s presidency before it started.
Real bad divide between nativist Anglo Know Nothing sympathizers of the Confederacy and the massive population of German immigrants and free Black residents in Baltimore in the mid 19th century who were largely disenfranchised. The former had a real lust for blood and exercised it quite often...
