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Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 12:09 pm
by eaglecatcher
I'll be in DC at the end of June for like 10 days or something for a Convention thing, if there's anyone in that area that wants to meet up for lunch or something I"d be glad to see if I could skip a lecture or something. Lemme know if anyone is from that region (George Washington University to be specific)

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:33 pm
by eaglecatcher
no one? Anyone in the Bethesda, MD area?

sheesh. This is depressing.

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:23 pm
by ra64t
ooops, missed this. I'm like 15 minutes from DC and bethesda. we could have met up.

shoulda posted in the south section too, DC is not in the Northeast!

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:15 pm
by watkins
Yeah DC is officially south. Also, way to necropost

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:06 am
by Jastreb
DC is NOT south! It is mid-atlantic.

I live in northern virginia, basically you could say DC.

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:19 pm
by watkins
Fact: The Mason-Dixon line delineates North and South.
Fact: DC is south of the Mason-Dixon

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:48 pm
by Jastreb
Washington DC was the capital of the Union during the civil war. Maryland, which surrounds DC, never seceded from the Union. Virginia did, so if you want to be technical, then the south starts in Virginia. But you can't define North and South simply geographically, because you have to look at the modern DC metro area as a whole. And northern virginia is not distinct from the DC suburbs of southern maryland.

Also, the closest southern city of note to DC is Richmond, which is farther away than Baltimore, which was always a northern city. Therefore DC is on the border between north and south, and you could say that the South starts at Alexandria, which is 5 miles south of DC. But really the transition is gradual as you move from Richmond to Philadelphia, putting DC neither in the north nor in the south. Hence Mid-Atlantic.

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:19 pm
by ra64t
I agree DC is Mid Atlantic, but there is no Mid Atlantic section here!

Given there is no Mid Atlantic forum, I revert to the mason dixon line rule.

I agree Virginia is the south but northern virignia can also be considered Mid Atlantic since it is part of the DC metro area.

The DC area does have some southern influence, but I wouldn't consider DC "the south." Southern influence is apparent in the outer suburbs of VA, and even southern Maryland.

All this could be solved if SS added a Mid Atlantic forum!

Re: Anyone here from DC area?

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:20 pm
by watkins
ra64t wrote:All this could be solved if SS added a Mid Atlantic forum!
Cha-CHING!