Can you name the largest cities in the South region as defined by the US Census?

Rank	City	Population
27		597,337
31		579,999
39		437,994
40		420,003
43		403,892
44		399,457
46		391,906
51		380,085
53		343,829
55		335,709
60		305,215
63		295,803
69	295,803
71	295,803
75	295,803
77	295,803
78	295,803
80	295,803
82	295,803
83	295,803
84	295,803
85	295,803
86	295,803
88	295,803
90	295,803
93	295,803
96	295,803
102	295,803
104	295,803
107	295,803

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US Cities by Region: South Quiz

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	log417:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:23 GMT		93 points
	I am from the true south New Orleans.....if you ask me Washington DC and Baltimore are not considered the south. We would call that the north...seriously.

	crazylegs:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:27 GMT		70 points
	@log417: I'm from Canada and I'd call that the north.

	climbingpianist:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:34 GMT		26 points
	The south is pretty far north. :)

	munga:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:41 GMT		40 points
	South? Baltimore is like the same latitude as Atlantic City, New Jersey & Cincinnati, OH.

	Tony_A:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:42 GMT		1 point
	@log, I've always found it humorous that it takes me about 3 hours to get from my home near Baltimore to Penn Station in NYC, and over 2 hours just to go to Richmond.

	Meltha:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:48 GMT		30 points
	Oklahoma is in the south? The census is using a fairly odd definition of "south" here.

	StevieB82:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:53 GMT		14 points
	Traditionally, Maryland is not considered a southern state, and Washington was built on the border between north and south, and geographically speaking it is all in Maryland (see prior point).

	y2dre4:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:57 GMT		19 points
	The Mason Dixon line is at the northern Maryland border, which was the original dividing point between the North and South. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_Line

	match:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:58 GMT		14 points
	Maybe if "South" were more defined, Baltimore and D.C. would be more guessed.

	SecretMike:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 20:02 GMT		55 points
	The south says we're in the North and the north calls us the south. Maryland is the red-headed stepchild of American geographic regions.

	kpforthree:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 20:21 GMT		15 points
	You lost me at El Paso.

	thewildboo:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 20:43 GMT		12 points
	The mason dixon line may have divided "north" and "south" in the civil war, but that's about it. Maryland is a mid-atlantic state (same group at Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware).

	MrMN:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 21:17 GMT		4 points
	It's obviously not just based on "north and south" during the war. Maryland never seceded, and neither did Kentucky. It's also not slave and free states because Missouri was a slave state. I don't think most people would consider El Paso in the south either. Defining a region as just "south" will get as many different responses as the "midwest".

	gracie:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 22:09 GMT		2 points
	if you're going to base this quiz on a totally weird definition of "south," you should include a map of the included region, or at least a "this includes the mid-atlantic and southwest" note.

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	sfturd:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 23:16 GMT		22 points
	It wasn't that hard to figure out what states were being considered here, especially with the time limit so high. Just consider it an added challenge and move along.

	JBNelson:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 23:32 GMT		1 point
	Just sayin, The south in my mind is everything in the corner, the borders are virginia, louisiana, kentucky, and arkansas, maryland, texas, these aren't the south, if you go there, you will see the big difference.

	JimKatz:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 23:48 GMT		15 points
	Two things to bear in mind. First, the Census uses state borders, not cultural definitions, so Texas and Oklahoma are all-or-nothing. (Maryland and DC have lost some of their Southern character, but for many years were unambiguously Southern.) Second, these are city limits, not metro areas. The number of people living in the area around Atlanta or Miami dwarfs many of the cities ranked above them, because city limits are not uniformly decided.

	dancastro:	Aug 16th, 2012 at 00:29 GMT		6 points
	@Shortney87: the problem is that there is no such thing as a "Southwest Region". For the Census Bureau there are only four regions: Northeast, Midwest, South and West, and therefore a southwestern state must be necessarily South or West. A more detailed partition is that of Census divisions of which there are nine. For example, the South region is constituted by three divisions: South Atlantic, East South Central and West South Central. Texas and Oklahoma, for example, are West South Central.

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	duke00:	Aug 16th, 2012 at 01:02 GMT		8 points
	It is a geographical quiz not a cultural one. And the South is just as varied as any other region of the country. DC and MD are both under the mason-dixon line and are considered southern states/regions. (and if anyone has ever been to southern md. would find that it fits the southern stereotype so many want to box the south in anyway.)

	veda1984:	Aug 16th, 2012 at 01:44 GMT		4 points
	I honestly don't know how Maryland became part of the south. Anyone from Maryland does not identify themselves as southern, unless that particular individual grew up in the southern states and then moved there. But the ultimate test between northern and southern cities, especially for Washington DC and Maryland, is the Sweet Tea test. If you can't find or order sweet tea in Washington Dc or Maryland, then it is not part of the south..sweet tea is that much a part of the culture down in Dixie, that if you can't find it, then you are in Dixie anymore...lol