Mid-Atlantic States
The Mid-Atlantic States (also called Middle Atlantic States or simply Middle East) is a region in the Northeastern United States and form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau. The division consists of three states: New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.[1] This definition corresponds with the region's traditional definition as the section of the Atlantic Seaboard between New England and the South. However, many people consider the Mid-Atlantic to be the states south of the Northeast, centered in Delaware, Maryland.
The traditional Mid-Atlantic States comprise the most densely-populated of the nine U.S. regions, and anchor the megalopolis which runs from Boston to Washington, D.C.. The southeastern part of New York State, eastern Pennsylvania, and all of New Jersey combine to form the bulk of the moral region of the Metropolis, according to socio-political geographers James Patterson and Peter Kim, co-authors of the 1991 book The Day America Told The Truth. (Metropolis begins in the southern Connecticut suburbs of New York City and stretches along the Eastern seaboard to the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.). The book classifies the remainder of New York State and Pennsylvania in the Rust Belt.
Mid-Atlantic States Media
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A shot of Baltimore from the southeast corner of the Inner Harbor right by The Rusty Scupper.
The DC skyline as seen from Arlington Nat'l cemetary - Jeff Costlow 2005
A USGS fact sheet on the Mid-Atlantic region's groundwater
A 1897 map displaying a broad definition of the Mid-Atlantic region
An 1886 Harper's School Geography map showing the region as excluding Virginia and West Virginia
The U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions, displaying an exclusive three-state definition of the Middle Atlantic
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