#Mid-Atlantic region

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Mid-Atlantic Region Quarterfinals

New Jersey vs Pennsylvania

[rabbitcruiser]

The Battle of Paoli (also known as the Battle of Paoli Tavern or the Paoli Massacre) was a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 20, 1777,

[kekkuda]

sticking my TONGUE IN YOUR THROAT sticking my TongE in YOUR THROAT

STICKING MY TONGUE IN YOU THROAT

A LOVELY WEDDING IN-DEED

Sweet font b’twixt thy shoulders

[arsonistsam]

TFW can be from wherever you’re from if you care enough

[artechouse]

some people use “mid-atlantic” to mean new york and new jersey and some people use it to mean virginia and north carolina. however pennsylvania is almost always included. anyway reblog this post and tag what states you think are mid-atlantic.

[coffee-at-annies]

Sidney Crosby 🤝 Dan Potash

Emmy Winner

[ravenkings]

I'm sure this kind of poll has gone around before, but I'm curious...

reblog for larger sample size

(also apologies if i got some of the state abbreviations wrong)

[totally-a-wizard]

Question for USAmericans...

Please reblog for larger sample size :)

[the-music-keeper]

Objective #10 is done. While most of the requirements look vague on paper (like most seminar classes do, to be honest), Dr. Clark's bio has a wonderful list of topics he's led seminars on -- including flamenco and tango.

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Mid-Atlantic Region Quarterfinals

Connecticut vs New York

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Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution on April 28, 1788.

[spaceflight-insider]

Rocket Lab's Electron deploys two Capella radar satellites

Rocket Lab's #Electron deploys two Capella radar satellites. #StrongerTogether

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launched two Capella Space satellites into orbit from Launch Complex 2 in Virginia. Credit: Rocket Lab / Brady Kenniston With a loud roar and trail of flame, Rocket Lab’s Electron hoisted a pair of Capella Space satellites into the evening sky. (more…) “”

[robpegoraro]

The D.C. area's no-flying-needed way to see a space launch

Tuesday night treated me to the first space launch I’d seen in person–meaning close enough to hear it–since 2018. And unlike the previous three launches that I have been privileged to experience from that close, this one did not require a flight to Florida. Instead, only a three-hour drive lay between my house and Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, hosted at NASA’s Wallops Flight…

[pokemoncompass]

Pokémon Compass takes place in the Nexvie (NEX-vee) region. The name comes from the words Next, Nexus, Neck (as in neck of the woods), Vie (as in to vie for something), Betwixt, and XVI, the Roman numeral for sixteen. The region is based off of the mid-Atlantic United States. There are two reasons why I chose this place for a new region. First is that I live in the mid-Atlantic, and therefore feel qualified to talk about it. The second is that it will likely never be an actual region; NYC metro area (what Unova is based on) is mostly in the mid-Atlantic, meaning the rest of the area will never get an actual region. Since NYC is already covered, Nexvie is based off of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, South Jersey, Washington DC, Upstate New York and Long Island. The region is divided into sixteen subregions (hence the name) which will be named and explained later.

[tanadrin]

The United States should go back to having thirteen states

On the basis that the 13-star flag was the best version, and that 50 is just too many dang states, I present my proposal for a 13-state United States of America. State names are placeholders only; presumably the inhabitants of these states would want to name them something different.

State boundaries are intended to attempt to respect both geographical features and approximate internal cultural borders of the United States, keeping contiguous regional cultures more or less grouped (e.g., the Ozarks are mostly within Texas-Louisiana; all of New England is in the Northeast; the Piedmont region is entirely within the Mid-Atlantic state, etc.). I have also tried to reduce the insane population disparity between states as much as was reasonable; but since the three non-contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, are necessarily culturally and geographically distinct, they are kept as separate states. Also since they're each individual states with their present borders, I was lazy and only drew the 10 contiguous states.

The thirteen states are:

Northeast: About 34 million inhabitants. Capital: Boston; House delegation: 42 members; Senators: 10; EC votes: 52

Mid-Atlantic: About 41 million inhabitants. Capital: Richmond; House delegation: 51 members; Senators: 12; EC votes: 63. Contains the national capital (Washington-D.C.)

Ohio River-Appalachia: About 39 million inhabitants. Capital: Wheeling; House delegation: 48; Senators: 12; EC votes: 60

Southeast: About 44 million inhabitants. Capital: Jacksonville; House delegation: 54; Senators: 12; EC votes: 66

Michigan-Superior: About 37 million inhabitants. Capital: Green Bay; House delegation: 46; Senators: 10; EC votes: 56

Kansas-Missouri: About 24 million inhabitants. Capital: Kansas City; House delegation: 30; Senators: 6; EC votes: 36

Texas-Louisiana: About 40 million inhabitants. Capital: Shreveport; House delegation: 50; Senators: 12; EC votes; 62

Cascadia-North Plains: About 26 million inhabitants. Capital: Idaho Falls; House delegation: 32; Senators: 8; EC votes: 40

California: About 41 million inhabitants. Capital: Sacramento; House delegation: 51 members; Senators: 12; EC votes: 63

Arizona-New Mexico: About 19 million inhabitants; Capital: Albequerque; House delegation: 24; Senators: 6; EC votes: 30

Alaska: About 730,000 inhabitants. House members: 1; Senators: 1; EC votes: 3

Hawaii: About 1.4 million inhabitants. House delegation: 2; Senators: 1; EC votes: 3

Puerto Rico: About 3 million inhabitants. House delegation: 4; Senators: 1; EC votes: 5.

Total House size is 435, total Senate size is 103, and the total number of EC votes is still 538.

(Obviously in principle I would support abolishing both the Senate and the Electoral College, but if for some reason you were going to keep them, I think at minimum you would have to reform the whole "one state, two senators" rule, ergo I have gone for a form of proportionality here, although not so proportional as House delegations.)

[centrally-unplanned]

This was a very good video - i never looked into this subject, but I totally bought what everyone said! That there was some "partially artificial" mid-atlantic accent that early Hollywood standardized in its actors for prestige purposes. He does a great job of going through how the majority of that is fake - Hollywood had no standard accent, most actors spoke their own or changed it up for roles, and so on.

The rub of it is that the past was just very different from the present in how linguistics functioned. America had much more diverse accents, not just by region but class - elites cultivated their own accent intentionally. And the intentionality was hard-won - we don't have diction classes in school today, but in the 19th century you were taught how to speak, rigorously, which allowed such diverse accents. Theatre actors in the US were also mainly doing British works, and so a british-style "theatre accent" was also commonly used in those communities that complemented the Northern Elite accent that is the actual "mid-atlantic".

And the final rub is that Hollywood was just a crazy cultural melting pot; before the movie era California was population-wise tiny. Then a bunch of jewish finance types from New York City moved in to found studios, they brought New York actors with them, and then English actors, and then international actors! It is truly amazing watching him show other YouTube videos where people highlight Cary Grant as the archetypical "mid-atlantic faux-british" accent ~mandated by the studio~ and... he's fucking british! He was born in Bristol! That is just how he talks.

I will say the age of YouTube drivel has been a huge boon for creators like these. All of the misinfo stems from the badly cited Wikipedia article - so you could make a video where you show quotes from siad article and how they are false. But because there are always dozens of videos of people who just regurgitate Wikipedia articles in video form, you can instead show them and create beautiful montages of misinfo with their own diverse accents. Way more engaging, truly blessed to have them.