The confusion is that this is BF and everything goofily becomes a bone of contention.
Now I can see why the mods have thus far declined to set up a "mid atlantic" forum. Unlike the other bike forum I'm on, mid-atlantic here at the BF has as many definitions as there are posters commenting on it.
Mid-Atlantic, according to NYT (and the way the region is defined at other forums):
Source:
http://jobmarket.nytimes.com/jobs/lo...-atlantic-jobs