Northeastern United States (disambiguation)

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

Geography

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

The exact extent of the region is not clearly defined. According to the definition of the United States Census Bureau is the north-east of New England ( with the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Iceland, Connecticut) and the Mid-Atlantic States (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania). In these nine States that are indisputably attributed to the northeast, lived in 2008, about 55.9 million people.

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

Society

The Northeast is densely populated and predominantly urban. With the Megalopolis BosWash the largest metropolitan area in the United States in the region. The states of New York and Pennsylvania also have a share in the megalopolis Chipitts. The Northeast is the most prosperous region of the United States. The three states with the highest median household income (as of 2008), Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut. In the seventh to ninth are Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Virginia. Other northeastern states with a median household income above the U.S. national average are Delaware, Washington DC, New York, Rhode Iceland and Vermont. Eight of the most prestigious universities in the United States, members of the so-called Ivy League, are all in the Northeast. This also applies to the seven well-established former colleges for women, the so-called Seven Sisters.

Religion

The northeastern states are the U.S. most Roman Catholic and the least evangelical imprinted region. The five states with the highest percentage of Catholics in the total population (as of 2000) are members of the Northeast: Rhode Iceland 51.7 %, 48.7 % Massachusetts, New Jersey 40.4 %, 40.3% Connecticut, New York 39.8 %. Other northeastern states in the top ten with the highest Catholic population are New Hampshire ( 7th place with 34.9 % Catholics ), and Pennsylvania ( 8th place with 31% Catholics ).

The proportion of evangelical Protestants in the population was, according to statistics from the Association of Religion Data Archives for the year 2000 in the New England states was 2.4%, the mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania 3.7%. In comparison, the proportion of evangelicals is specified in the total population of the United States with 26.3% in a study by the Pew Research Center in 2008.

Policy

Politically, the north-east is a stronghold of the Democratic Party. In the presidential elections from 1992 to 2008, the respective candidates of the Democratic Party received in a contiguous area from Maine to Maryland and Washington DC almost throughout all electoral votes. House of Representatives and in the Senate the States of the North East MPs from the Democratic Party send overwhelmingly. The death penalty does not apply in most northeastern states.