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The Mason-Dixon Line is the state border separating Maryland and West Virginia from Pennsylvania and Delaware. It is commonly known in the United States as the dividing line between the North and the South. However, it was actually used to separate British colonies in America during Colonial times.
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∙ 12y agoi don't
but can tell you that its final & purely conventional configuration
at the end of compulsory segregation in the 1960s
is generally considered to have followed the northern borders of Delaware Maryland west Virginia Kentucky Missouri Oklahoma & west Texas
& a more recent map is not likely to be any different or any better than a map created at that time
tho it is true that there were several entirely distinct so called mason dixon lines situated in varying locations & having different meanings at different times
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