Talk:Jersey/@comment-3552681-20160523000339/@comment-36118777-20180708094428

Delaware's poulation IRL is heavily weighted toward Wilmington in New Castle County. 560,000 of Delaware's 960,000 people reside in this county. This region is called the "Delaware Valley" coloquially, AKA the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington statistical area you mentioned. Delmarva as a region is considered to begin at the Chesapeake Bay Canal in Delaware, they actually call it the Slower Lower there, and would be directly south of the Delaware Valley. The Delaware Valley is centered on Philadelphia and has parts of New Jersey within it; unlike Delmarva it is directly integrated in the Northeastern urban sprawl and is not very rural; directly Northeast is the NYC metro area which includes North Jersey, which has the part of the turnpike depicted in SU. If you ever drive there FYI it's exit 11 - Carteret and Rahway - which has the terrible garbage smell due to oil refineries.

I've noticed that when native Delawareans(some of which are my family members) speak of the Slower Lower it is in a sort of fond way, they tend to take summer vacations in Lewes and Rehoboth Beach there, or in Ocean City, MD; people who were born and raised there take pride in its more relaxed pace.