Middle Atlantic States
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The Middle Atlantic States (also called Mid-Atlantic States) of the United States traditionally refers to that section of the Atlantic Seaboard between New England and the South. The definition always includes New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. In addition, Delaware and Maryland are also usually included.[1] Less often, Virginia and West Virginia are included.
It is the most densely-populated of the nine U.S. regions. A narrower and less widely-accepted United States Census Bureau statistical grouping places it within the larger Northeastern United States region, leaving Delaware and Maryland to The South.
The Middle Atlantic States are the anchor of America's great megalopolis, which runs from Boston to Washington, D.C.. The southeastern part of New York State, eastern Pennsylvania, and all of New Jersey combine to form the bulk of the moral region of the metropolis, according to noted socio-political geographers James Patterson and Peter Kim, co-authors of the groundbreaking 1991 book The Day America Told The Truth (Metropolis begins in the southern Connecticut suburbs of New York City and stretches along the Eastern seaboard to the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.). The book classifies the remainder of New York State and Pennsylvania in the Rust Belt.
