Is Louisville "southern" (neighborhoods, friendly, build)

[sloopjonboswell]

^ this guy is barking up all the right trees. There's a reason all the homes weren't burned here in Louisville. The annals of history will not forget that. I'm not a revisionist.. I'm a realist. Louisville, Kentucky will always be a Northern City while the rest of KY largely lies with the South... period.

If I had the classical pen to draw those old boundaries... Loueeeville would be cut out of all Southern maps and sent back to DC... They should've just given it to Indiana at that point.

Central Kentuckians know Louisville was a traitor to the Misguided Southern Experiment... Just like they know that brothers took up arms against brothers in nearly every other city except good ol Lou.

Louisville, KY just tries to act Southern for publicity. It is not. There is culture and shopping and history and a river and a symphony etc... but the cultivated "southern image" is as fake as the silk flowers on my Mamanel's grave.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by sloopjonboswell

^ this guy is barking up all the right trees. There's a reason all the homes weren't burned here in Louisville. The annals of history will not forget that. I'm not a revisionist.. I'm a realist. Louisville, Kentucky will always be a Northern City while the rest of KY largely lies with the South... period.

If I had the classical pen to draw those old boundaries... Loueeeville would be cut out of all Southern maps and sent back to DC... They should've just given it to Indiana at that point.

Central Kentuckians know Louisville was a traitor to the Misguided Southern Experiment... Just like they know that brothers took up arms against brothers in nearly every other city except good ol Lou.

Louisville, KY just tries to act Southern for publicity. It is not. There is culture and shopping and history and a river and a symphony etc... but the cultivated "southern image" is as fake as the silk flowers on my Mamanel's grave.

This post is a bit of hyperbole ,yet, I couldn't agree more. Louisville puts on this "southern" vibe to give itself identity. And to sell mint juleps at Derby.

In reality the city is nothing like a southern city (ie Birmingham) and shares more in common with nearby river Midwestern cities of Cincinnati and St. Louis (except more people in Lville have a bit of a "southern" twang). Yet, Louisville has this distinctly unique what I call, "Ohio River Valley" vibe. It is not south, not north, just Louisville.

[NARFALICIOUS]

My GF is from Louisville and she says it's the South.

[Cosmic Thunder]

I deleted it and started a new thread. my post wasn't really about Louisville being Southern vs Midwest.

[nlst]

Louisville, Kentucky is a Southern city both linguistically and culturally. It has more in common with Nashville than with St. Louis and Cincinnati. Just because it's on a river doesn't mean it's not Southern.

[jonsereed]

Originally Posted by nlst

Louisville, Kentucky is a Southern city both linguistically and culturally. It has more in common with Nashville than with St. Louis and Cincinnati. Just because it's on a river doesn't mean it's not Southern.

Is the Creationist museum still up ?

I had a good time in there, the caveman riding the dinosaur was a gateway fun house version of the South for me

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by jonsereed

Is the Creationist museum still up ?

I had a good time in there, the caveman riding the dinosaur was a gateway fun house version of the South for me

That is nowhere near Louisville. It is just as close to Cincinnati. I also highly doubt you have been there.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by nlst

Louisville, Kentucky is a Southern city both linguistically and culturally. It has more in common with Nashville than with St. Louis and Cincinnati. Just because it's on a river doesn't mean it's not Southern.

Wrong. Not even close. Louisville is an old industrial river city, much much more like Cincinnati (and also geographically much closer) than Nashville. Louisville does have some southern elements, but also is very Ohio Valley. You don't see people ask whether or not Nashville is southern. The fact that there are so many threads all over the net about whether Louisville is southern or not proves it is not totally southern in the true sense. It does have some southern sensibilities though.

[censusdata]

The Creation Museum is funded by a guy from Australia. Kentucky was chosen as the place to build it. There are people everywhere in America that believe in the literal Bible version of Creation and everywhere there are more people who don't.

Also I would have to disagree about Louisville being similar to Cincinnati. Cincy people are much more introverted, aggressive, and unfriendly (IMO) than people in Louisville. When I cross the river up there I feel like I've landed on a foreign planet

[Orgetorix]

Really? We're still having this discussion? Just let it go. There's no right answer.