Youre travelling the entire length of Interstate 95 from Miami all the way to northern Maine. What is the EXACT point that “the south” ends?

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1. Either the Maryland-Delaware border or the Delaware-Pennsylvania border.

   The South includes the Washington DC area.

2. I think the true south ends right around Quantico, VA.

   Of course, you also didn’t start in the South, as Miami is its own thing entirely.

3. My best guess, National Museum of the Marine Corp

4. The Mason Dixon line

5. For me I’m going to detour onto the NJ Turnpike until it turns back into I95, Delaware Memorial Bridge.

6. When you reach the exurbs of Washington DC, around Woodbridge, Virginia.

7. Culturally? Probably around Quantico.

   Geographically? When you cross into Pennsylvania.

8. Right around the first exit in Delaware. Being from TN, I used to think that Maryland was the north, but after living really close to the first exit in Delaware and exploring a whole lot of Maryland, I have to say that it is really southern. I’m not sure how northern Delaware really is.

9. The Mason Dixon Line, so for the sake of I-95 the Maryland-Delaware border.

10. Maryland crossing into Delaware is the Mason-Dixon Line ~~which was “the south” during the civil war~~. So, one could say that. Edit: yeah I forgot Maryland wasn’t a confederate state despite being a slave state.

    These days… for me “the south” ends between DC and Richmond VA. I’ve done the I-95 drive more times than I care to count and other than the weather, I just don’t feel that DC is “the south”

11. 25.74995705202818, -80.21014567412028

    That’s the coordinates for exactly where the southbound side of I-95 terminates.

12. Fredericksburg VA

13. I’m more curious where the south begins when you leave Miami

14. The south ends at the moment you begin. Miami is not in the south.

    The south begins at Daytona beach and ends at Quantico.

15. Maryland-Virginia border. Everything south of that before you hit the water of the Gulf is the south. Yes, south Florida is different and all, but it’s still the south.

16. The point at which you can’t get sweet iced tea at most places. Or somewhere around Fredericksburg, VA.

17. The south ends at Fayetteville.

18. The South ends at the last Waffle House. After that, you’re on your own.

19. The south probably starts when you get around Orlando. It ends just south of the suburbs around Alexandria.

20. Don’t forget to stop at Pedro’s South of the Border!

21. Just keeps stopping at IHOP and when grits are no longer on the menu you’re no longer in the South.

22. I don’t know that answer, but I recently took a Louisiana Hwy 1 Road Trip (corner to corner from Grand Isle to Three States), and now I want to take a US 1 road trip from Key West to Fort Kent, Maine.

23. DC. I don’t think of Maryland as south

24. Just don’t use that so-called sweet tea line as a boundary. Whoever made it didn’t go west across the mountains in Virginia. Up here in the Northern Shenandoah Valley, there’s plenty of sweet tea.

25. Quantico VA

26. The Cracker Barrel in Fredericksburg

27. Went from NYC to Jacksonville on the I-95 and back, and I can confidently say that the SECOND we crossed from Virginia into Maryland, it looked and felt like I was back north lol

28. I firmly believe that Virginia is the end of the south and Maryland is the beginning of the north

29. Depends who you ask

    Northerners- The Virginia/MD line

    Southerners- The North Carolina/Virginia line

30. The “True” South… just north of, maybe at, Richmond.

31. Somewhere in the middle of Virginia.
    I drove NYC to Miami and noticed a shift. It wasn’t gradual. Also a lot of Dollar General stores and gun ranges started appearing and I knew…

32. Back in the 80s, Richmond, Virginia was the farthest north on 95 that you could reliably get sweet iced tea, so I always considered that the true north-south line.

33. Fredericksburg, VA

34. The sign that says “welcome to Maryland”