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Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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How is it Midwestern? There are no corn fields or farming. WV doesn't look Midwestern.
While i agree that's often the stereotype of the Midwest, the Midwest has its mountainous regions...the Ozarks and the Porcupines for starters. In any case, West Virginia's primary reason for not being the Midwest is its culture, cuisine, and dialect...West Virginia has the most in common with Kentucky with Virginia.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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In Kentucky - along I-75 - the first bonafide Southern town is Georgetown. I'd call from north of Gtown to Crittenden a buffer zone with a mix of Southern and Midwestern. Rural northern KY in general doesn't feel Southern to me. I grew up 30 miles from the TN line and have family in Owen Co and the people are much quieter, less friendly, more standoffish up there. The Cincinnati suburbs (Boone, Kenton, Campbell Cos) are defiantly Midwestern. The natives up there talk like people from Michigan
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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In Kentucky - along I-75 - the first bonafide Southern town is Georgetown. I'd call from north of Gtown to Crittenden a buffer zone with a mix of Southern and Midwestern. Rural northern KY in general doesn't feel Southern to me. I grew up 30 miles from the TN line and have family in Owen Co and the people are much quieter, less friendly, more standoffish up there. The Cincinnati suburbs (Boone, Kenton, Campbell Cos) are defiantly Midwestern. The natives up there talk like people from Michigan
I would say that's pretty accurate. Louisville and Lexington, while near the end of the south, are still southern.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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I would say that's pretty accurate. Louisville and Lexington, while near the end of the south, are still southern.
The East End of Louisville has some Midwestern feel to it. It is more a German Catholic based culture. But the Southern and South West parts of Louisville feel very Southern to me, only marginally less Southern than areas along the TN border. You hear a lot of Southern drawls not just in Louisville but in the adjacent counties in Indiana. Many people also have no noticable accent (the neutral American accent) The only Southern drawls you hear in Northern KY is from people who moved there from somewhere else
The East End of Louisville has some Midwestern feel to it. It is more a German Catholic based culture. But the Southern and South West parts of Louisville feel very Southern to me, only marginally less Southern than areas along the TN border. You hear a lot of Southern drawls not just in Louisville but in the adjacent counties in Indiana. Many people also have no noticable accent (the neutral American accent) The only Southern drawls you hear in Northern KY is from people who moved there from somewhere else
Um, what?
Are you speaking of St Matts or Butchertown?
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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The East End of Louisville has some Midwestern feel to it. It is more a German Catholic based culture. But the Southern and South West parts of Louisville feel very Southern to me, only marginally less Southern than areas along the TN border. You hear a lot of Southern drawls not just in Louisville but in the adjacent counties in Indiana. Many people also have no noticable accent (the neutral American accent) The only Southern drawls you hear in Northern KY is from people who moved there from somewhere else
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