Also Quote by Timothy Noah

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“From the earliest days of the nation anyone with an intelligence equal to that of sparrows had realized that the peninsula ought logically to…

— James A. Michener

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two…

— Sam Trammell

“While technically Maryland remained in the Union during the Civil War, it was the border state, a schizophrenic no-man’s-land with the North at its…

— Sarah Vowell

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense…

— Hilarie Burton

Divides between north and south, towns and cities, between urban and rural areas, cause people to experience a gulf in quality of life and…

— Nicky Morgan

Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped…

— Chris Gethard

Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up…

— David Simon

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

— Maggie Rogers

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with…

— Paul Theroux

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it…

— Geraldine Brooks