I wanna go travel the south! Around georgia, alabama, mississippi and lousiana! New orleans, the swamps, banjo, blues, moonshine, seafood, voodoo!
Loves it!
Some of those states highlighted aren't considered the south.
In a cultural sense, I agree about Maryland and Delaware not really being Southern. But I think for the Census they are included in the South. They were the traditional "South" back in the Revolutionary time period.