Mid-Atlantic States

The Mid-Atlantic States (also called Middle Atlantic States) of the United States traditionally refers to that section of the Atlantic Seaboard between New England and the South. Many people in the vicinity of Washington D.C. and its surrounding states consider the Mid-Atlantic to be the area south of the North-Eastern states, centered in Maryland and Virginia, and can occasionally include parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

The traditional Mid-Atlantic States comprise the most densely-populated of the nine U.S. regions, and anchor the 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.