(June 4, 2013 at 2:27 pm)festive1 Wrote: Though there are degrees... I'm in Maryland, south of the Mason-Dixon and I find it far more pleasant than Arkansas where I grew up... Maryland was a slave holding, non-succeeding, border state.
Well, none of the slave holding states "succeeded." (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
The Mason-Dixon is really just a physical estimation of the cultural barrier. Despite being below the line, Maryland is definitely considered to be in the north.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell