One for the Northern folks here

[argodad]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

You either need to get a map or learn how to read one.

Well, MOST of Delaware is south of the Mason Dixon line. True?

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Originally Posted by argodad

Well, MOST of Delaware is south of the Mason Dixon line. True?

oops - guess not!

[Altor]

Originally Posted by argodad

Well, MOST of Delaware is south of the Mason Dixon line. True?

No. Mason and Dixon were contracted to determine the borders between Maryland/Delaware and Maryland/Pennsylvania. By definition, Delaware is north (well, actually east) of the Mason-Dixon line.

[Little Jimmy]

Just south of the Mason Dixon (northern MD) but I worked a Thanksgiving fastpitch tourney a few years ago. It just happened to be warmish (50's).

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by Altor

No. Mason and Dixon were contracted to determine the borders between Maryland/Delaware and Maryland/Pennsylvania. By definition, Delaware is north (well, actually east) of the Mason-Dixon line.

The line actually extends to the coast, at Fenwick Island/Ocean City border. although not on red om that map.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Altor

No. Mason and Dixon were contracted to determine the borders between Maryland/Delaware and Maryland/Pennsylvania. By definition, Delaware is north (well, actually east) of the Mason-Dixon line.

There you go, we have a winner, East it is.

Mason and Dixon surveyed a lot of the area, not just the counties of PA and MD. However, the "Mason-Dixon Line" is usually defined as the Maryland/Pennsylvania State Line though at the time the task was commissioned, this was simply a land dispute between the Calvert (supposedly the heirs of Lord Baltimore) and Penn families. At that time, Delaware was considered the "three lower counties" of Pennsylvania.

Of course, most people don't know that the "state" of Delaware declared itself separate of not only the colony of Pennsylvania, but also the British Empire before the continental congress did in Philadelphia.