Northeast United States

The northeastern United States (English Northeastern United States or Northeast ) is a large region in the northeastern part of the United States .

geography

Dark red: States that undisputedly belong to the Northeast, also definition of the United States Census Bureau. Hatched: States whose assignment to the north-east or south is disputed.

The region is bordered by Canada to the north, the Midwest to the west , the Southern States to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east .

The exact scope of the region is not clearly defined. According to the definition of the United States Census Bureau , the northeast consists of New England (with the states of Maine , New Hampshire , Vermont , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut ) and the Central Atlantic states ( New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania ). In 2008, around 55.9 million people lived in these nine states, which are undisputedly attributed to the northeast.

Other authorities also assign Maryland , Delaware and Washington, DC or even Virginia and West Virginia to the northeast . The United States Census Bureau regards the states south of the Mason-Dixon Line and Delaware, however, as belonging to the South Atlantic region and the southern states .

society

The northeast is densely populated and predominantly urban. The Boswash megalopolis is the largest metropolitan area in the USA in the region. The states of New York and Pennsylvania also have a stake in Chipitt's megalopolis . The Northeast is the wealthiest region in the United States. The three states with the highest median household income (as of 2008) are Maryland, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Virginia are in seventh to ninth place. Other northeastern states with median household incomes above the US average are Delaware, Washington DC, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Eight of the most prestigious universities in the USA, members of the so-called Ivy League , are all in the northeast. This also applies to the seven traditional former colleges for women, the so-called Seven Sisters .

religion

The northeastern states are the most Roman Catholic and least evangelical regions of the United States. The five US states with the largest proportion of Catholics in the total population (as of 2000) belong to the northeast: Rhode Island 51.7%, Massachusetts 48.7%, New Jersey 40.4%, Connecticut 40.3%, New York 39.8%. Other northeastern states among the top ten with the highest Catholic population are New Hampshire (7th place with 34.9% Catholics) and Pennsylvania (8th place with 31% Catholics).

According to statistics from the Association of Religion Data Archives for the year 2000, the proportion of Evangelical Protestants in the population of the New England states was 2.4%, in the Central Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania together 3.7%. In comparison, a study by the Pew Research Center from 2008 put the proportion of Evangelicals in the total US population at 26.3%.

politics

Politically, the northeast is a stronghold of the Democratic Party . In the presidential election from 1992 to 2008 , the Democratic Party candidates received almost all of the electoral votes in a contiguous area from Maine to Maryland and Washington DC. In the House of Representatives and the Senate, most of the Northeastern states send MPs from the Democratic Party. The death penalty does not apply in most of the northeastern states.

Individual evidence

↑ US Census Bureau: Census Regions and Divisions of the United States (PDF file; 1.07 MB) accessed February 19, 2010

↑ US Census Bureau: Population Estimates accessed February 19, 2010

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