virginia: I say Virginia is considered a southern state because it joined the confederacy in 1861 and is where Robert E. Lee is buried. My friend feels thta VA is too high up on his map to be considered a southern state. Doesn't the fact, that it fought on the side of the confederacy make it a southern state?|||Virginia has ALWAYS been considered a Southern state culturally. It's below the Mason-Dixon line, which is kind of crooked, but that's how we judge North from South. If a state joined the confederacy, 9 times out of 10, it's considered a Southern state, regardless of it's geographical position. Unfortunately for your friend, we don't always discern northern states from southern ones based on geography.|||anyone who says virginia is not the south is just dumb. my ansestors fought and died for there freedom and evan though our secound war of independence failed every man, women, and child in virginia owes a debt of gratitude to those who fought for there freedom against the union. Report Abuse |||The division of the Southern states vs. northern state is based on the Mason-Dixon line that separates Maryland from Pennsylvania. Yes, Virginia is a Southern state and was a Confederate state. Maryland is technically a Southern state and would have been a Confederate state if Abe Lincoln had not had the Md state legislature sequestered in a basement to keep them from voting for secession. Further West, the dividing line between north and South runs down the Ohio River to the Mississippi, then across the northern border of Missouri. West of that, there is really no distinction. It is simply considered the West.|||The connection with the Confederacy has some weight, but a better measure is that Virginia is south of the Mason-Dixon line, the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Maryland is a southern state and did not join the Confederacy.|||Not by North Carolinians, it isn't.|||YES, VIRGINIA IS A SOUTHERN STATE. 1. IT IS BELOW THE MASON DIXON LINE. 2. PORTIONS OF VIRGINIA BROKE OFF AND BECAME A SEPARATE STATE SIDING WITH THE NORTH. IT BECAME KNOWN AS WEST VIRGINIA ON JUNE 20, 1863. THE CURRENT STATE OF VIRGINIA REMAINED WITH THE CONFEDERACY.|||Yes!!! Virginia is considered a Southern State.|||Virginia is the beginning of the Southern states even though it and North Carolina are usually included in the North East for sales territories. It seems like the minute you cross the state line from Maryland or DC, the Southern accents appear. Your friend would not want to offer his opinion too loudly in a bar in Richmond.|||You're both right ... Virginia is located in the Southern United States but is sometimes included, geographically, in the Mid-Atlantic States. It is one of four states that use the name commonwealth. Virginia was the first part of the Americas to be continuously inhabited by English colonists from its founding as a European colony up to the American Revolution.|||It is a southern state|||its on the cusp of the being south. a kind of confused state really. get it? confused state? hahaha. anyway,,... gimme 10 points please please?