Is Maryland A Southern State? Not According To Most Marylanders

BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — Is Maryland much bluish oregon southern? The reply to that question depends connected whom you ask, but astir Marylanders accidental it’s northern.

That’s according to the results of a caller Goucher College poll, which shows 65% of residents see Maryland a bluish state, much than treble the 27% who presumption it arsenic a confederate state.

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While the responses look reasonably cut-and-dried, the state’s past is simply a small spot much complicated.

Maryland really sits beneath the Mason-Dixon Line, which divided escaped states successful the northbound from their slave-owning counterparts successful the southbound during the Civil War era.

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For decades, the state’s opus was James Ryder Randall’s “Maryland, My Maryland,” which called Abraham Lincoln a “tyrant.” In May, Gov. Larry Hogan signed into instrumentality a bill scrapping the tune.

But ultimately, the statement among residents from each walks of beingness — careless of age, gender, race, and governmental stance — is that Maryland is simply a bluish state.

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Among different things, the Goucher College canvass recovered most residents enactment marijuana legalization and they presumption Gov. Hogan successful a favorable light.

CBS Baltimore Staff