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I've lived in Maryland for 20 years and I have NEVER considered it to be a part of the south. Technically, it IS south of the Mason Dixon line, but it doesn't even compare to the Georgia type of southern, warm hospitality, etc.
I live outside of DC, which is probably NOTHING like the rest of Maryland. According to the new license plates... we have lots of farms in Maryland? WHERE?! I've never seen them! But again, I only pretty much stay here or Northern Virginia and sometimes I venture up to Frederick. Never really been to southern MD, though.
Oh, and I think people in MoCo use "thurr" "urrea" "hurr" etc as some kind of joke. Its not an accent here. The people I know who say it (me included sometimes) are preppy private school kids who say it as some kind of hip slang (thanks to Nelly!). My friends use it, even my manager uses it (and I KNOW his stems from hip-hop). It's not a natural accent to anyone I know.
Baltimore accents are just in their own world compared to the rest of Maryland (or Murrlin as I've started calling it- which is definitely a good way to confuse people). I don't know, I've never known anyone in the DC suburbs to have an accent from the area.
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