Surveyors have left their mark on American history. George Washington began his career as a surveyor and wound up the 1st president of the U.S. In 1760 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon choreographed their geographic skills to mediate a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Little did they know that the Mason-Dixon Line would become an iconic part of American history.
The history of the Mason-Dixon Line is significant and colorful, but many delusions remain why it was created, and what it created. Over the years it has enforced political and social isolationism, sectional separatism, dividing one culture from another and good guys from bad guys. Few know the real history of this mythical line and what it’s been and not been and “what it stands for today.” Article at Black Republican
…the TRUE significance of the Mason/Dixon line…
https://youtu.be/iMZfCar-Ks8
Having lived against the line all my life I can honestly say some of the most prejudiced people I know have lived on the northern side.
And some of the most alibi IKES lived on the southern side. One church on the southern side was proud that the grave yard was segregated and sought funding to take care of “the slave graves” which had no individual markers or signs.
Mason Dixon line still remembered here that cops couldn’t chase bad guys across even in the house that strattled the line.
@SNS
Was Bugs Bunny in blackface at 1:25?
My last name is pronounced one way north of that line and another way south of it.
Is Kansas’ northern border considered part of the Mason Dixon line?
Dicks in line made me VP.
Jethro
MARCH 7, 2022 AT 6:46 PM
“Was Bugs Bunny in blackface at 1:25?”
…yes, but it’s OK, because I’m retconning it as a Trudeau impersonation.
Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart-ass New York Jew
The Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well, he may be a fool but he’s our fool
If they think they’re better than him they’re wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that’s where I made this song
We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We’re too dumb to make it in no Northern town
And we’re keepin’ the n*****s down
We got no necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol’ boys from Tennessee
And colleges men from LSU
Went in dumb, come out dumb too
Hustlin’ ’round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin’ drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they’re keepin’ the n*****s down
We are rednecks, we’re rednecks
We don’t know our ass
From a hole in the ground
We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
And we’re keeping the n*****s down
Now your northern n*****’s a negro
You see he’s got his dignity
Down here we’re too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the n***** free
Yes he’s free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he’s free to be put in a cage
On the South Side of Chicago
And the West Side
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Hough in Cleveland
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In East St. Louis
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Fillmore in San Francisco
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Roxbury in Boston
They’re gatherin’ ’em up from miles around
Keepin’ the n*****s down
We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
We don’t know our ass
From a hole in the ground
We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
We’re keeping the n*****s down
We are keeping the n*****s down
~ Randy Newman (1974)
that article is a mis-appropriation
studied surveying in Philly and got into thier line. Amazing accomplishment. Astronomical surveying. With amazing accuracy. They set monuments and also, littley known, planted clay pots with iron rods in them. By the stars.
The Line intersects an arc that defines delaware. The radius of that arc was determined by a high tide. Lord Baltimore waited for a flood.
Here’s why it should be remembered:
Mark Knopfler – about Jeremiah Dixon, Sailing to Philadelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQS45-YFdE
Anybody north of Hattiesburg is a damn Yankee.
THE TRUE LINE IS NOW THE NC/SC BORDER – YANKEES HAVE SUSSESSFULLY CO-OPTED NC, VA, AND MOST OF GA, NOW!