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Old 01-11-2013, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Could West Virginia be the northernmost Southern state? If not, what is it?
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Old 01-11-2013, 02:51 PM
 
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What a compelling, thought-provoking thread.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:18 PM
 
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Wasnt there a REALLY long thread about this very subject?

I dont feel like finding it, but perhaps someone should pull it up. I feel this is a topic not worth reviving.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Elkins, WV
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Or the southernmost Northern state?
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:24 PM
 
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I've always considered it WV.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:37 PM
 
Location: On The Road Full Time RVing
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West Virginia was not a southern state.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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I was referring to its culture.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:49 PM
 
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West Virginia has multiple cultures. Are you referring to the culture of the southern coalfields, or that of the eastern panhandle, what of the industrial northern panhandle, and then there's the agrarian Greenbrier Valley and Monroe Co.
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Old 01-11-2013, 03:56 PM
 
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If you go back a 100 years, most of wv, excluding the no. panhandle and a few areas bordering PA was more southern in culture. My grandfolks, both from No. WV, had heavy WV accents. As time went by, No. WV became more oriented to the north - PA and OH, while the southern half of the state, the mountain couties to the east, and the eastern panhandle were southern-oriented. Now that the far eastern panhandle is a DC suburb, it is no longer southern.
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Old 01-11-2013, 04:26 PM
 
Location: ADK via WV
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Not a Southern State, the southern half of the state has some aspects of Southern culture, but has aspects of Northern culture with industy (coal) and unions.
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