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Well since I'm from BG I always say we are Southern Men. Anything north of Etown is Yankee. That's including any of you Louisville guys whether yal like it or not. It's a sharp cutoff kinda like the Western KY parkway or near it.
I totally agree and couldn’t have said it better.
 
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Back in the day when you crossed the Ohio into Louisville there was a huge sign that said, "Gateway to the South"!
Which was totally false. The gateway to the south was an hour south from there where a sign advertised used cows for sale along I65. Still does as a matter of fact. Therm’s some old cows by now.
 
Wife is from Lafayette in Christian County and I'm from Tompkinsville in Monroe County. If you watched the SEC network and saw the episode on True South you know what I'm talking about. Ain't no yankee's in this household.
I’m in Warren County, I married a girl from Tompkinsville. What’s your last name, if you don’t mind me asking?
 
We're Southern. There's the deep South and mid South. Kentucky Tennessee and North Carolina are all mid South. We're not remotely Northern ..damn yankees
 
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Ky is really kind of unique in its geographical, social and cultural makeup.
Those who beat their chests that it's a southern state aren't completely wrong but they aren't completely right either. Depends on where you live.
Louisville and Northern Ky are definitely much more midwestern.
The mountain areas of eastern Kentucky are more "Appalachian" than southern.
Border counties near Tennessee are definitely more southern.
The President of the Confederacy was born in Ky.... But so was the President of the United States.
Kentucky is a fantastic mix of many cultures that make our country and state great. It's a Commonwealth.
Very well said sir.
 
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I'd say a mix of both.

Not sure what being southern or northern has to do with a war 160 years ago at this point though. It should be based on the culture and vibe and has little to do with the long ago war.

And to the people trying to pump up KY as a confederate state because of some reject shadow government not sure that is something to brag about. Confederacy was obliterated so I'd try to claim north if you are into that crap.
Not really. Confederacy took a bunch of two and low-three stars and took the ‘85 Bears to the brink. It was definitely a four-quarter game. A late interception by George Pickett cost the South the game. Don’t be fooled by the final score. Sherman just decided to punch a final touchdown in.
 
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Kentucky sent 100k to fight for Lincoln and Grant. 40k at most to Davis and Lee. Most of the state was pro-union.
Probably made more sense for Kentucky due to trade with the northern states. At that time there was very little industry in the South, some textiles and ironworks, but not much, so most manufactured goods had to come from either the north stste or England, and as KY was not a coastal state, as all of the Deep South states were, trade with England would be quite expensive.
 
Not sure where this midwest stuff for kentucky has come from. I'm assuming its people my age (early 20s) who don't like the south and are trying to distance Kentucky from it due to shame.


Kentucky is below the ohio river
The center star on the confederate flag is for Kentucky
Kentucky was once part of Virginia
Civil war recruiting ads in Kentucky all point to the state being apart of the south
Kentucky's civil war governor told Lincoln he would not send any troops to Lincoln for the purpose of ''subduing its sister southern states.''

I've had people from Alabama call people from TN, NC, and VA ''yankees.'' Deep southerners aren't really the ones to ask about southern states. To them the south is 5 states. AL, MS, LA, SC, GA.


P.S. all my ancestral family is from GA, TN, NC, and VA.
I have lived in the south and while KY has elements of it, it isn’t the same either.
 
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Atlanta or for that matter Charlotte in my opinion feel less southern than Louisville. I grew up in Oldham co. and had Aunts and uncle's that lived in Louisville and they were definitely more southern than anything else. They all grew up in South Central ky.
 
Ky is really kind of unique in its geographical, social and cultural makeup.
Those who beat their chests that it's a southern state aren't completely wrong but they aren't completely right either. Depends on where you live.
Louisville and Northern Ky are definitely much more midwestern.
The mountain areas of eastern Kentucky are more "Appalachian" than southern.
Border counties near Tennessee are definitely more southern.
The President of the Confederacy was born in Ky.... But so was the President of the United States.
Kentucky is a fantastic mix of many cultures that make our country and state great. It's a Commonwealth.
EKY is southern….as is western NC and VA. Sure it’s Appalachian but the northern part of the Appalachian chain region isn’t anything like the Georgia/Tennessee/NC/VA sections from a cultural aspect of surrounding populace
 
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EKY is southern….as is western NC and VA. Sure it’s Appalachian but the northern part of the Appalachian chain region isn’t anything like the Georgia/Tennessee/NC/VA sections from a cultural aspect of surrounding populace
EKY definitely leans southern in many ways but is still culturally unique because of its isolated mountainous geography and economic/cultural history.
Southerners historically made their living breaking their backs on plantations/farms... While EKYians did so in coal mines/logging camps.
Even how they are labeled by society is different from southerners....Often referred to as hillbillies.
While southerners are romanticized as welcoming and showing "southern hospitality" the mountain people of EKY are stereotyped as being suspicious of outsiders and reclusive.... Mainly because of their history of moonshining and living isolated in mountain "hollers".
Some of that outlaw history was a result of a lack of job opportunities in farming or manufacturing because of the difficult mountainous terrain.
By no means am I saying these stereotypes are true....They aren't at all.
Just pointing out why EKY is not typically viewed by most people as falling into pure "southern" culture.
 
I like most Midwesterners and northerners. I'm not one...but they're ok. It's no insult to be a northerner. You can't help it any more than i can help being where I am from. All that said, the manners as you go north drop precipitously. I think, in part because of that, some northerners mistake politeness for friendship. And that can be annoying.
 
When I was in high school in the 80's, there was an interesting article in the Courier Journal titled "Is Kentucky Southern?". It looked at lots of factors. The conclusion, was that KY is both Southern and Mid-Western. That the dividing line splits Kentucky, most of it (sq. miles) being Southern, but the majority (population) being Mid-Western. The industrial river cities (Louisville, Florence, Owensboro) are Mid-Western. I believe Lexington was barely on the Southern side.

I grew up in South-Central KY (south of Bowling Green), definitely a Southern region. Even our TV and radio stations mostly came from Nashville. Where as my (ex)-wife came from North-Eastern KY, which was more Mid-Western even though in Appalachia. For example they say "pop" instead of "coke".
Where’d you grow up? All of my family is from Scottsville/Allen County. My mom was raised way out in Rough Hill.
 
I’ve always thought:

Eastern Kentucky: Appalachian
Lexington area: Southern with some Midwestern
River city towns: Midwestern with some southern
Southwestern Kentucky: Southern
 
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What I find interesting is how the South (however you define it geographically) has embraced the game of football to a point of near obsession. It's something fairly unique to the South (including Texas and Oklahoma ironically).
Living in KY we have for the most part ate, slept and breathed basketball until very recently. That is something that has always made UK a slight outlier in the SEC. At least the modern SEC (say, post 1960?).
Some may point to the integration of southern schools as a parallel to the rise of football in the south. While that certainly was a important moment, it wasn't the beginning of the South's love of the gridiron. Other areas of the country were integrated much earlier and football never rose to the level of popularity that it has in the modern South.
Seems for the last couple of decades the rest of the country has been playing catch-up to the South in terms of college football dominance and they haven't made up the ground entirely yet.
Maybe it does mean more in the South?
 
Yeah, I’m in Cumberland County next to you. We have yankee visitors due to dale hollow lake pretty much year round. Most here could do without. They leave a stink.
Same for Lake Cumberland. There's a dirty "ring" around the lake, after they leave on Sunday, that shows up every Monday morning. Some refer to them as Buckeyes ... I've always thought of them as "Buckups".
 
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And the beginning of the North. If you travel from Michigan to Florida and once you enter into Kentucky it's more sunnier and it feels like you stepping into a new region or the South. But if you travel North from Florida to Michigan and you enter into Kentucky it feels like you are closer to the North and the feel of Midwest is in the air.
Plus we are one state removed from the Canadian border!
 
The Appalachian region was for the most part, pro-union. That is why the 55 counties that formed West Virginia decided in 1861 to split from Virginia and return to the Union. I think it is funny when someone from WV displays the confederate flag, considering how their state was formed. Eastern Tennessee was also not very pro-confederate. The slave economy just leant itself to less mountainous areas.
 
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The loser just keeps losing like losers always do. You're fired....Again.

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Yeah Ohio people are the same way. Luckily they're not very good fighters. I used to whoop up on them Ohio kids all the time. every time they said something about my accent they got a fist. Between 1st and 6th grade before I left and came back to Kentucky I was suspended six times for fighting. Lol. Every damn time it was my accent.
Don't let it slide ever. Stick em in the mouth.
 
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