Mason Dixon Line

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The Mason–Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") was a line of demarcation between the Northern and Southern states in the United States. Properly, the Mason-Dixon line is part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, surveyed when they were still British colonies. After Pennsylvania finally abolished slavery within the Commonwealth (about 1840), this line and the Ohio River hardened as a border between free and slave states. Popular speech, especially since the Missouri compromise of 1820, uses the Mason-Dixon line symbolically as a traditional cultural boundary between the Northern United States and the Southern United States.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_dixon_line
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Coordinates:   39°5'10"N   76°40'5"W

Comments

  • It should read....Mason-Dixon line WAS a cultural boundary between northern and southern UNITED States.
  • Delaware is considered to be a "northern" state, as the M/D line is Delaware's western and southern borders. The circular line to the north is a 12 mile arc with Newcastle at the center.
  • i went pass ed that when i went to my gradmas house
  • it really still is, rural areas maryland reminds me more of virginia then it does of a state like PA
  • I think Maryland is still part of the North, it remained as a Union state.
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