• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Where in America is regarded the “mid Atlantic coast”? Because this description implies that it’s around New York, but as a non-American, NY looks very northern. I’d have said mid Atlantic is like…North Carolina and Virginia.

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      6 months ago

      The Mid-Atlantic coast is from Virginia up to New York. The term originated with the 13 colonies, where it was one of three primary groupings, alongside New England (Conn, RI, Mass, NH) and the South (Georgia and the Carolinas).

      At that time, Mid-Atlantic was being used in the context of the North American continent, rather than the USA, which didn’t yet exist. So if you consider the whole Atlantic coast of North America including Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, it makes more sense.