Years ago, I remember getting annoyed as a teenager when some dolt on "The Weather Channel" would refer to Virginia as part of the Mid-Atlantic region. Boy, was I in for a surprise. Forget Mid Atlantic. Now we're considered the part of that frozen tundra called "The Northeast". Has the North moved South? Yes and No. But I think I don't really mind being called Mid Atlantic now. In fact I would long for it. Please call us Mid Atlantic or South Atlantic, East Coast, or a border state. Anything but the Northeast! If North Carolina is often referred to as "The Mind of the South", then Virginia is just above it. We are north of North Carolina, and just below the Mason Dixon line. And we straddle the fence on what was once known as the "Upper South". But I don't think we are the Northeast. That is something I don't understand. How is Virginia the Northeast? Not by culture, certainly not by history, and no , not even geographically...
