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Ok fine. Louisville is Northern. Cincinnati is Southern. Baltimore is Southern. Have your fun. If you've ever been to Louisville, you would realize how different it is from the Midwest. I can't believe you are more quick to group Louisville in the North than Baltimore. Louisville is far more Southern than Baltimore from a modern standpoint.
A lot of those dialect maps are old and they aren't precise down down to the quarter mile anyway. Given Louisville's proximity to Ohio, it wouldn't be surprising if there's some mish mash of midland and southern dialects. I would imagine the same thing occurs in and around Cincinnati.
Amazing. You think you are more qualified than the professional who did this study. Let's see you comment on St. Louis.
Louisville is not that southern people.. its more Midwestern in feel.. Louisville is nothing like Nashville, Memphis or Atlanta. Louisville is more like Cincy, indy and Pittsburgh than the Southern cities.
Really. So they don't have Southern accents, don't have Southern cuisine, and 1/5 of their population isn't Southern Baptist, and their entire history isn't Southern? I might give that Louisville has a Midwestern feel, and some other Midwestern influences, but it is a Southern city first.
Really. So they don't have Southern accents, don't have Southern cuisine, and 1/5 of their population isn't Southern Baptist, and their entire history isn't Southern? I might give that Louisville has a Midwestern feel, and some other Midwestern influences, but it is a Southern city first.
1/5 of them might be Southern Bapist, but 2/3rds of them are Catholic. I think it's more gray. Feels like Louisville has more northern influences than southern. So call the accent southern but it's identical to southern Indiana/ Ohio and most of the time you don't hear it at all. Whereas when I'm in Birmingham the people have much thicker accents.
I was going to mention the Catholic heritage in the area which stands out quite visibly in this map...the Kentucky counties bordering the rive are definitely more Catholic than your typical Southern area.
How is that surprising? There Baltimore Diocese is twice as populated.
Exactly. It's the same way Rhode Island is more Italian than Arizona, Texas, Virginia, Colorado and California despite having fewer Italians in absolute number.
How is that surprising? The Baltimore Diocese is twice as populated.
He's saying Louisville is more Catholic than Cincinnati or Baltimore, yet there are more Catholics in both areas. Doesn't make any sense. I've been looking up old threads on Louisville and many of them say the polar opposite of what is being said on this thread. That Louisville is a Southern city. And that Southern Indiana/Southern Ohio accent, of which Cincinnati is not a part, is a Southern accent, indistinguishable from Kentucky or West Virginia. I actually wonder how many people in this thread have even been to Louisville.
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