How many here live below the Mason Dixon line?

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#61

My sister-in-law is from the Eastern Shore; Salisbury .

#62

Been paddlin’ near on 35 years TEXAS / Louisiana coast and lakes….
Bob - 7th Generation Texan
(most likely too lazy to post)

#63

If you extend the line west, I am 1.5 degrees south of it. I also lived in South Korea for a bit more than a year, and that is also south of the MD line latitude. Japan also. I suspect none of that is what you are asking, though…

Born north of the line.

#64

Let’s see…

Born in Arizona then moved shortly afterward to Nevada, then to Washington State, then to Oregon. Spent a good chunk of my childhood there (4~11), then moved back to Arizona for another chunk of time (11~24), and then ended up in Kentucky… where I still am.

So, most of my time was spent below the line, except for the 8 years in the Pacific Northwest as a child.

#65

Southern born and still here.
I have been fortunate to live most of my life in or near the southern Appalachian Mountains where I have been close to good whitewater rivers, at least when we are not in a drought. But isn’t that why we have dam controlled rivers, so we can paddle some water even in the dry times.

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#66

I know that Arizona and Nevada are south of the Mason-Dixon Line, although technically it didn’t extend that far west, but I never thought of them as “below” the Mason-Dixon Line.

I always associated that phrase as the former Confederate States.

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#67

Right. The Mason Dixon line ends near the southwestern corner of PA. Places west of there are, well, west.
There is also the Missouri Compromise line that extends from the western tip of KY to the Pacific. Most of AZ is south of that line, most of NV is north.

#68

In that case, then most of my life was spent in the western US. With about 14 years of it under the Missouri Compromise line.

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#69

MIchigan—->Virginia + ten states (dad was FBI )—->Virgin Islands 9 years—-> SoCal 15 years——> Hawaii 8 years——>Washington state——> Newport RI—->Southern :de: Germany 3 hrs——>I wake up confused because I’m old
High school in Costa Rica

People ask me where I’m from and I don’t know :woman_shrugging:
I talk southern

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#70

I get that … eight States + one Province in my rear view mirror.

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#71

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#72

Our water freezes completely. Kudos to you!

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#73

Dang. Endeavor to persevere.

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#74

You are hard core!

#75

Impressions of a lifetime (OR is it serving life?) Balt-A-Moron

We queue in lines.
We screw with lines,
politics parse akimbo.
Below? Above?
Push, pull and shove.
High jump and then try limbo.

Yankee from north,
and then Sally Forth,
to Dixie at which some whistle?
Jeremiah and Chuck,
part Penn’s peaced amok,
from Lord Calvert’s Roman C’s bent epistle.
(and ever since we’re crossing lines like wayward missiles.)

Oh.

And in lower, slower, Delaware,
Tropic of Psycho aligns micro-dose,
so Delmarva exclaims, “Dems in Dover’s’a brains,
of uh horse’s ass whipped comatose!”

While those in Newark of their covenant,
with brothers Dover and Wilmington spit,
looking south rather condescendingly,
saying, “Take Rehoboth! All else chickens’ chit.”

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#76

I grew up in Maryland right below the line. We integrated the school system in 1955. Virginia just across the river took until the early 1970s. The Underground Railroad was prominent in the State during the Civil War.

I left and moved West over 50 years ago and have lived in 7 states so far. Home Means Nevada.

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#77

Born and raised in Baltimore. Retried and living in SW Louisiana. Great kayaking if you don’t mind water moccasins and alligators.

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#78

Wait till I get a drysuit, I’m going to try and get out there :smile:

#79

The “Show Me” state for me…

#80

Slower lower

I grew up at the southern pointy tip of NJ. It was going “to the beach” for us. We already lived at the shore.