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Md. lawmakers not feeling so Southern anymore
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Mar 20, 2010 12:17pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Mar 19, 2010 12:15pm |
| Description | ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland's official song may include a line about "Northern scum" left over from the Civil War era, but the state isn't feeling so Southern anymore.
Though Marylanders live just south of the Mason-Dixon Line, their attitudes and even their accents straddle that border. These days, leaders feel they've got more in common with states to the north.
In one sign of the shift, lawmakers successfully petitioned to move from the Southern Region of the Council of State Governments to the Eastern Region, where they'll be able to trade ideas with fellow officials from Pennsylvania, New York, and other states they consider more like-minded.
"I just don't think we're as Southern as people used to think," said state Sen. Catherine Pugh, a Baltimore Democrat. |
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