Giant Movies That You Never Hear About Anymore

zatsnzapps said

Between growing up in the New Orleans area, spending summers in the suburban Atlanta, living in Alabama for a decade, and now living in Maryland for as long as I have, I've been around some pretty interesting regional dialects.

I haven't picked up any of them. :hihi:

Oh, and to answer the question, it's too dang cold to go. :)

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This may sound like a quirky, odd question but do you think it’s fair to still consider Maryland “a Southern state” in terms of its regional attitudes, perspectives, maybe not so much political because Md. is a safe blue Democratic state but in terms of its history and any lingering sentiments?

I know Baltimore had some of the worst anti-Union riots early on at the beginning of the Civil War and the state probably would’ve seceded if Lincoln hadn’t arrested pro-Confederate lawmakers and kept them under house arrest for the entirety of the war as well as Baltimore and Maryland was not allowed habeus corpus and the area remained essentially in a semi-martial law state until conflict’s end.

I also know Maryland was a hotbed of Confederate supporters, sympathizers and there were several poorly-conceived plots to kill President Lincoln in the Md. countryside that failed abysmally. The woman who owned the boarding house where Wilks conspiracy plots took shape in Washington D.C. was from Maryland and was a Confederate sympathizer who met clandestinely with like-minded individuals, including Dr. Mudd, the now-infamous rural Md surgeon who worked to try to splinter Booth’s broken leg after jumping down an entire floor of steps and landing awkwardly on the theatre stage at Ford’s Theater, supposedly yelling “Sic Semper Tyrannicus”—thus be the fate of all tyrants in Latin and also Virginia’s state motto.