Settle this for me...is Kentucky considered the south or not?
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The new Mason-Dixon line runs through Georgetown. Above that line = Yankee.
You won't get it settled here. One of those unanswerable questions. Once you have an opinion it won't change.
I vote yes except for Kenton, Boone and Campbell counties. They are part of Cincy and Midwest.
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I vote yes except for Kenton, Boone and Campbell counties. They are part of Cincy and Midwest.
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If you have to say 'yes' or 'no' to the whole state, then YES Kentucky is Southern.
But Louisville is not southern, it is a mid-western river-city. Same for Covington/Newport area.
Eastern KY is part of appalachia, but that only makes up 1/4 to 1/3 of the state. And appalachia can be considered southern, as it goes into eastern TN, western NC, and even maybe a little of GA & SC.
The Mason Dixon line goes through KY, with more of KY South of it than North of it.
But Louisville is not southern, it is a mid-western river-city. Same for Covington/Newport area.
Eastern KY is part of appalachia, but that only makes up 1/4 to 1/3 of the state. And appalachia can be considered southern, as it goes into eastern TN, western NC, and even maybe a little of GA & SC.
The Mason Dixon line goes through KY, with more of KY South of it than North of it.
Kentucky is Kentucky. We're unique. We're part Southern, part Midwest, part Mountain, part Horse Country.
Tanked, aren't you from the same town as the chick in StarTrek and Boston Public (I think same girl whose divorce papers were later unsealed, which scandal pushed her exhusband to the side to allow a little known guy named Obama to run for Senate in Illinois)?
I moved to Louisville from Nashville. First day on the new job, I commented how different the place seemed from Nashville, how that was very southern and it seems very midwestern here. Someone else who started work that day moved from Cincy, and she said she couldn't get over how southern Louisville seemed (she was practically sneering when she said it). Point is, like anything else, it's all relative.....
Kentucky did not fight on the side of the South and thus the other southern states will never consider us part of the "South". However, if you go up north many people consider us part of the "South". In truth, we are really part Mid-west and part Southern. A true border state much like Missouri and Maryland.
I agree with this. My father is from Michigan, momma's a Texan......by the time I came along we were in Tennessee......I've lived in Hazard (wife's from Barbourville).
Kentucky is part Southern, part midwestern, part mountain.
-Mountain - The mountain culture has thick southern sounding accents, but the mountain culture is unique and an entity all it's own.
-Midwestern - Especially when you get close to Cincy/Louisville. Fast paced culture.....accents start to fall. What's odd is that midwestern words like "pop" filter down througout the state.....whether in the midwestern portions or the mountain portions.
-Southern - Probably the most southern areas are western KY. Where a "coke" can be anything. But it's important to note that Kentucky really isn't as southern as other states.......Meaning Tennessee culture is closer to Bama/Georgia culture than it is to Kentucky culture.
Louisville is absolutely southern, although it tries to not be. Louisville wants to be Cincinnati or Chicago. It's known for bourbon and horse-racing, so it's definitely southern.
I've always thought of TN as unique kind of like KY. You go from Memphis ---> Nashville ----> Knoxville. That's diverse. Kind of like KY on a larger scale.
Mid-South is what I call it. Lived in Lou-Lex-NKY my entire life. That triangle has half of the state's population and has plenty of Midwestern influence.
Kentucky is not southern. I've spent time in the south on several occasions. We have some backwards folks but, thank you God, we don't have anything like the knuckle dragging slack-jaws of the true south. If you don't understand what I'm talking about just go spend some time in any southern state, but make sure you stay out of a city and are more than 10 minutes from an interstate. Everyone knocking eastern Ky needs to go see rural Mississippi. Appalachia looks cosmopolitan in comparison.
If you don't think Kentucky is southern that just means you are extremely southern. Ask anyone anywhere outside of the deep south if Kentucky is southern and you get a resounding "yes". Its not even debatable. People in Kentucky speak with a southern accent for christ's sake.
yep I am. I guess so - I've never spent much time in Louisville, but I've spent alot of time in Lexington and Frankfort.
I can tell a Mountain person from a Southerner - Its close but its like Spanish and Portuguese. They don't quite line up.
This post was edited on 1/29 6:23 PM by TankedCat
After enough experience in both I want nothing to do with either.
I'll take Kentuckian. TS.
I'll take Kentuckian. TS.
Depends on the person you ask. A New Yorker would likely say "yes," while an Alabaman might say "no."
I can't speak for the rest of KY, but western ky is southern. I've worked and spent slot of time in mid and west tennessee, there is no difference between western ky and them.
Now, go across the Ohio into illinois or Indiana, and there is a resounding difference.
The western part of the state was pro confederacy, many if not all of the state elected officials from this end of the state were removed from office because they were proconfederacy. There's confederate memorials in many counties here, I haven't see any union, there may be some, but I haven't seen them.
Now, go across the Ohio into illinois or Indiana, and there is a resounding difference.
The western part of the state was pro confederacy, many if not all of the state elected officials from this end of the state were removed from office because they were proconfederacy. There's confederate memorials in many counties here, I haven't see any union, there may be some, but I haven't seen them.
You all rejected the first great evil (Union) but joined up with the second (St. Louis Cardinals).
The first official flag of the Confederate States of America-called the "Stars and Bars" - originally had seven stars, representing the first seven states that initially formed the Confederacy. As more states joined, more stars were added, until the total was 13 (two stars were added for the divided states of Kentucky and Missouri).Originally posted by -LEK-:
I'll just put this here...
Kentucky's Confederate government (although short-lived) was recognized by the CSA.
Anyone who identifies the commonwealth as Midwestern needs to leave Jefferson County. Or actually, don't.
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