“Virginia is for Lovers,” you will remember, debuted in 1969, courtesy of the Martin Agency, an advertising firm in Richmond. The first print reference to “Maryland is for Crabs” that Answer Man can find is in a 1975 Washington Post story about a Fourth of July gathering at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Among the T-shirts spotted was one bearing “Maryland is for Crabs.”

Source: Washington Post August 07, 2021 19:07 UTC