Growing up in Maryland, just south of the Mason Dixon Line, I often let my wanderlust and imagination drift up the coast to a more perfect place of beautiful coastline, living history and a cultural patina that seemed a caste above my mid-Atlantic surroundings.
In contrast to the better-than-average performance of the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, when examining the states where economic mobility is suffering, a new trend emerges: All nine of the states highlighted by Pew a underperforming against the national average fall south of the Mason Dixon line.
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Maryland's northern border is the famous Mason-Dixon line, traditionally the demarcation between North and South.
They were determined to move from their home in New Jersey to their imagined Nirvana south of the Mason-Dixon line.
The main thing the words Democrat and Republican told you was which side of the Mason-Dixon line a politician came from.
Being south of the Mason-Dixon line makes it prone to harsh winters.
The younger generation of carbuyers stayed faithful to their Toyotas, Hondas or Mercedes assembled in the new cheaper car factories below the Mason-Dixon line.
If we start corralling every white Southern grandpa who ever committed a hate crime, we may have to throw a dragnet over every old folks home south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
The best measurements of that transit were made by Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, of Mason-Dixon-line fame.
Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).
"There's this great universal quality that Grumpy Cat captures, " explained Mason Peatross, who waited in line more than 90 minutes for his 30 seconds with the snoozing kitty.
But Spain were level within three minutes when Ribas' drag flick from the hosts' seventh penalty corner was only half-stopped by Mason's left hand and the ball trickled over the line.
Since starting the patient navigator program at Mason General, Trout has helped hundreds of women cross that finish line.
Peter Manley won in straight sets against Chris Mason, boosting his hopes of making next year's Premier League line-up, and crowd favourite Wayne Mardle also secured a comfortable 2-0 win over Denis Ovens.
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First, The Matrix's Australian producer, Andrew Mason, and compatriot director Alex Proyas persuaded U.S. studio New Line that Sydney had the technical capability to film their ambitious 1998 sci-fi thriller, Dark City.
Tottenham teenager Ryan Mason, who signed on loan this week for a month, was among six changes to Rovers' starting line-up, with Shelton Martis, Simon Gillett, Martin Woods, Sharp and skipper Brian Stock all returning.
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