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Ole Miss baseball ???

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I've been to Baltimore and Maryland is not "Southern".

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I live in DC. I promise I've spent much more time in Maryland than you have.

Spend time with black people from Maryland. Then you'll understand where I'm coming from. Like I said, white Marylanders are people that I don't have much in common with, but black Marylanders are no different than the black friends and neighbors I had in Mississippi. They're very Southern.

ETA: In the sense of what makes something Southern, you cannot ignore the role that slavery has played. Everything from Southern food to Southern music and even to Southern speech can trace its roots to Africa (as well as Western Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean). That's why I count Maryland, America's second blackest state and a former slave state made rich off of tobacco plantations, as a part of the greater South. Its history is very similar to the history of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.

I think some of y'all have definitions of the South that are far too narrow. I think of it like Europe... Just as someone from Spain doesn't have a lot in common with someone from Finland doesn't mean that they're both not equally European, in the same sense that someone from Texas might not fit in in Maryland, even though they're both (in my view) Southerners.

This might be far too simplistic an approach to the South to some, but this is my opinion.

When I say someone or something is southern, I mean it simply as a compliment not as much of a regional distinction. Whether or not Marylanders share any common culture with us is irrelevant. If they did not secede from the union to fight with the South then they aren't southern. They made the choice then to not be associated with Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, etc. If you aren't with us, then you are against us. If you chose not to fight with us for our freedom then you don't deserve to be called southern. The same thing goes for traditionally "southern" states like Kentucky or Missouri.

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Yancy Porter ?@YancyPorter 5m
Southaven pitcher @TheDallas33 has committed to Ole Miss. He is a 6' 3", 225 RHP that is touching 91 MPG this spring.

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Yancy'd

You got that right

didn't even catch that