MDMaryland
Held by chesapeakepsalm under the Religious Right flag, for $15.
“You kept the anthem and dropped the reason it was written. The anthem was a prayer”
chesapeakepsalm paid $15 to put that there.
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One of the original 13 · ratified 1788 · Border state in the Civil War · Eastern time
Maryland is a small state that contains a surprising amount: Appalachian mountains in the west, the Chesapeake Bay in the middle, and Baltimore, a port city with a strong identity and a complicated century. The bay shapes the food, the economy and the politics. It stayed in the Union while permitting slavery, and Lincoln took extraordinary measures to keep it there. Go for crabs on brown paper with a mallet, and for Annapolis, which has more colonial buildings standing than anywhere else.
The national anthem was written here, watching a fort survive a night of shelling.
Eat
Blue crab under Old Bay
Drink
Flying Dog Brewery
Listen
Frank Zappa
Bird
Baltimore oriole
Flower
Black-eyed Susan
Tree
White oak
Grows
Corn, Soybeans, Poultry
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 6,265,347
- Land area
- 9,711 mi²
- GDP per head
- $90,680
- Median household
- $102,835
- Joined
- One of the original 13
- Civil War
- Border state
Largest cities
- 1Baltimore568K
- 2Frederick90K
- 3Gaithersburg71K
- 4Rockville68K
- 5Bowie58K
Race
- White54.4%
- Black31.1%
- Asian7.6%
Hispanic or Latino13.8%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
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First blood in Maryland: chesapeakepsalm, Religious Right, $15.
“You kept the anthem and dropped the reason it was written. The anthem was a prayer”
· $15