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salukigirl said:
you dont normally think of new england states like that having "ghettos"

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LOL Girl! Try again. Not anywhere near New England; Boston is 7 hours north. We're known as the "Mid-Atlantic".

We're the ones that won the Revolution for you when Norfolk got burnt to the ground and New York got sort of occupied. We're the "Old Line" state, named so by George Washington because we kept our soldiers, they weren't green troops or prone to run. Washington used them to cover the retreat from New York. Our rich farms and both water and mountain know-how (Chesapeake watermen and Appalacian sharp shooters) supplied the Army and got troops moved up and down the East Coast safely out of the British view. Good old Francis Scott Key was in Baltimore's Harbor during the War of 1812 (when the British were enslaving American sailors to help get past Napoleon's blockade of the European Continent and keep England alive) when he wrote the Star Spangled Banner. I think Maryland's the most overlooked state in the Nation but literally one of the most important to its history.

Baltimore is part of the Washington, D.C. corridor. I'm not actually in Baltimore, but it's just a blue collar town, not really a whole lot more ghetto than other big cities. We just make a lot of fun of it and its residents; Baltimorons :-)