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West Virginia is considered southern because it is below the Mason-Dixon line.
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Berkeley Springs West Virginia is below the Mason-Dixon Line so I assume it not considered the north east.
The Mason Dixon line forms part of the southern boundary of the state of Pennsylvania. It also forms the northern and eastern boundries of Maryland and a part of the northern boundry of West Virginia, then Virginia and the western border of Delaware. The line was surveyed in the 1760's by Mason and Dixon to settle some land disputes.
The Mason-Dixon line, named for Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the surveyors who mapped it out, was originally the border between the colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia (in present-day West Virginia). The line later was extended westwards, marking the border between slave states and free states.
Samuel Dixon - West Virginia - was born in 1856.
Samuel Dixon - West Virginia - died in 1934.
it was established - to settle a border dispute between the four states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia .
The Mason-Dixon Line (or Mason and Dixon's Line) was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to resolve disputes over the borders between the colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia (in the area now Known as the state of West Virginia. The line demarcates the vertical border between Maryland and Delaware, and horizontally the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, West Virginia. The line surveyed actually comprises a small portion of the border between W.Virginia and Pennsylvania.This line has been later referred to as the line that separates free states from slave states.
Kansas territory
The Mason-Dixon line was defined as the line extending west from the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. As Baltimore is located south of the Pennsylvania border, it is south of the Mason-Dixon line.
The Mason-Dixon Line. Surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. It forms a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia).