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Why did you revert this article to use the gradated map? Our articles on the South, the Midwest, and the West use the Census definition in their respective infoboxes to keep things simple and uncluttered; why should this article be different?-- DruidLantern8 ( talk) 20:16, 22 April 2021 (UTC) reply

Look, I'm relatively new to Wikipedia. Clearly, you're going to keep undoing any references to Maryland as Southeastern despite the reasoned arguments I've put forth, and you're not going to feel the need to put forth any (good) arguments of your own. It'd be a waste of my time to keep undoing your edits, in addition to which, I don't know if you're an authority figure here or not.

Maybe you've been around here for longer than I have. Is there an authority I can appeal to above you? Thanks.

Toadmore ( talk) 04:51, 20 November 2021 (UTC) reply

It's not that your arguments aren't "reasoned" it's the fact that there are just as many (and more) valid arguments for classifying Maryland as a Northeastern state. Maryland's regional location in the US is probably the most controversial and contentious debate regarding the state and it has re-occurred ad infinitum here on Wikipedia. There have been a lot of back and forth, edits, reverts, discussions, etc. on this topic. The only thing everyone seems to agree on is that the state is in fact Mid-Atlantic (although the Census Bureau ironically excludes MD...yet another reason the CB definitions can't be considered definitive).

For this reason there is an explicit note at the top of the edit page that's existed for years alerting users not to alter the lead paragraph redefining the state. The note is for the purpose of averting edits wars that have been triggered by classifying Maryland as "Northeastern" or "Southeastern."

While my personal belief (which is irrelevant) is that the preponderance of evidence currently shows that Maryland shares much more in common with the North/Northeast than South/South Atlantic/Southeast, it's obviously not absolute. I would certainly agree that the lower two-thirds of the DelMarVa (including DE) and Southern Maryland are more "Southern," but the opposite is true for the I-95, I-70, and I-270 Corridors, and it's not just urbanized areas, but suburbs and rural areas as well. I would also agree that Maryland was more of a Southern state pre-Civil War, but even then the growing gap between Maryland and the rest of the South was obvious. The state wasn't nearly as invested or dependent on a plantation economy compared to North Carolina or Virginia by the time the Civil War arrived.

Anyway, the widely-used and non-controversial "Mid-Atlantic" definition is the best one for the lead paragraph for the reasons above. You can certainly add your cited arguments to the Demographics section, which discusses Maryland's regional location at length.

007bond ( talk) 00:13, 23 November 2021 (UTC) reply