I agree that the Maryland section is very one-sided as well. Maryland is a mix of Northern and Southern culture, albeit a little more Tidewater Southern/influenced by its coastal border.
The page is starting to risk reaching the Overly Long mark (which I accept a good deal of blame for). While we've got around 30K-80K more characters to go before we reach that point (and I don't anticipate adding much in the immediate future), would anyone be in favor of reducing the lengths of those states that already have a dedicated page to the quick facts and a single descriptive paragraph?
Much of the information on California, New York, Florida, etc. is redundant or repeated from their main pages, and reducing the length of those entries would also help encourage traffic to those pages. To avoid stepping on anyone's toes, we can also transfer any original work from this page that's not already covered on the individual pages over to them.
I'd like to hear back from a few of the other tropers who have been helping to expand/update this page the last several weeks before proceeding.
Edited by Claystripe
MINNESOTA Correction.
DFL stands for Democratic-Farmer-Labor rather than Democrat-Farmer-Labor.
For reference see dfl.org
Teh
Should we start a page on the state of Colorado? According to The Other Wiki, there are 39 films and 23 TV shows set in Colorado. Granted, some of these will overlap with those on the Denver page and others (like South Park) are duplicates, but still.
Edited by Westrim Those who think violence isn't the answer failed history.
As a Wisconsinite, I have no idea what "aina" means. The sentence would probably simply end in "eh?".
The Maryland section seems to make a somewhat stereotypical assumption that the state ends just south of Annapolis. The state is fairly divided into four regions. Northern or Baltimore, southern Maryland (blue when the sun is up, grey at night), the eastern shore (famous for chicken farms and ocean city), and western maryland (which is closer to appalachia). It also leaves out the locally famous Virginia vs. Maryland rivalry.
I am not saying the article is wrong, just that it seems based on a very north state view.
Also down in southern Maryland the joke is "the govener thinks the state border begins and ends in Baltimore. "
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