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Old 04-26-2012, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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Few things: Southwest Ohio is widely considered one of the most politically conservative regions in the U.S. and the Midwest is considered one of the most politically conservative areas outside of the South. Just stating the obvious.

Religion: rank the states by level of religiousness all you want. I know both anecdotally and from what I've read, that the Midwest is much more religious than the coastal areas. Just stating the obvious.
flashes, sorry, between when i first posted and you replied, i edited my post to get away from the religion discussion.

this was my source
http://www.wnd.com/2009/02/89029/

shows 65% of ohio residents say religion is very important, versus 57% in california.
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Old 04-26-2012, 12:06 PM
 
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Forbes....
And flashes1, you sound really ignorant right now with all your generalizations. I've met the same people you "despise" here in Cincy, Maryland, Philly, New Orleans, and NYC; they are everywhere. It has more to do with class distinctions rather than regional differences.
How can we have sweeping discussions without making generalizations? It's not politically correct nowadays to make generalizations but I don't know how to avoid them especially on a message board about a specific City? We all make generalizations many many times a day. You may not care to admit it, but you do.

Yes, there are high falutin' phonies everywhere, but IMO there's a lot more on the coasts. I'm talking about the old money East Coast types where if you didn't go to the right prep schools and Ivy League school you're a commoner. The Yacht club people who sail around Nantucket on the weekends. You might not have been around them, but I have.
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Old 04-26-2012, 12:08 PM
 
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flashes, sorry, between when i first posted and you replied, i edited my post to get away from the religion discussion.

this was my source
Where does your state rank in religious belief?

shows 65% of ohio residents say religion is very important, versus 57% in california.
Okay. Fair enough. The difference between 65% and 57% is statistically significant.
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Old 04-26-2012, 12:09 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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I'm talking about the old money East Coast types where if you didn't go to the right prep schools and Ivy League school you're a commoner. The Yacht club people who sail around Nantucket on the weekends. You might not have been around them, but I have.
Yeah, we don't too many of those types here, thank god. On this we agree. I didn't get the sense from your other posts that you were talking about snobs, I thought you were talking about people on the other side from you on social issues and that kind of thing.
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Old 04-26-2012, 01:38 PM
 
Location: OH
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I'm talking about the old money East Coast types where if you didn't go to the right prep schools and Ivy League school you're a commoner. The Yacht club people who sail around Nantucket on the weekends. You might not have been around them, but I have.
I grew up in Maryland, which has one of the highest household median incomes in the country, so I know of the people you speak of all too well. I've lived in several different places, and IMO, people are not much different at the end of the day. You can go to Hyde Park or Indian Hill and find the the same 'elitist' types you see on the coasts. Just as you can go to Northern Alabama, Upstate SC and find people living the same rural lifestyle as people in the Catskills and Chautauqua regions of New York.
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Old 04-26-2012, 02:09 PM
 
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I hear what you're saying, but at the end of the day, the Indian Hill snob is from Cincinnati f'ing Ohio (pardon my French). They can't compete with the Choate graduate by way of Yale from Boston who sails his yacht on the weekend whose forefathers were on the Mayflower. My boss's boss likes to tell people that.
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Old 04-26-2012, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Syracuse, New York
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The fact that Cincy is now without a single strip club probably put it high on the list.
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Old 04-26-2012, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Mason, OH
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The fact that Cincy is now without a single strip club probably put it high on the list.
Come to think of it, that may be a damn good reason, rah rah. If that elevates us in the cities to raise kids in list, more power to us. Several have said we have a more family friendly atmosphere, and that is just one of the attributes. Now if we could just run the druggies out we could claim the title of best city in the US to live, period.
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Old 04-26-2012, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati tri-state area
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The fact that Cincy is now without a single strip club probably put it high on the list.
Strip clubs were for adults and Cincinnati doesn’t need them, thanks to sexy Cinemax and Internet porn. Besides, kids are far more interested in kids’ stuff than they are that sort of thing, at least until puberty starts to kick in.
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Old 04-27-2012, 02:55 AM
 
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Well, the largest tattoo convention in the US is in Cincinnati this year.
We are dead in the middle (25th) of states where the residents consider religion important. And the entire midwest, every state, went for Obama in '08 (although the republican party has warped what it means to be conservative and a genuinely conservative individual could make a perfectly rational argument for voting democrat).
You mean other than Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas ...

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