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Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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I'm sorry, but I will have to respectfully disagree here. Indianapolis is a stark contrast to Louisville...it is Midwestern in almost every sense of the word..culturally, historically, architecturally, and linguistically.
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.
I would agree with that too and on the flip side that refutes the previous poster's point that because there are parts of WV that look like the stereotypical Midwest that those parts of WV are Midwestern. I guess I haven't traveled enough in NW WV, but the parts of WV I've been in haven't felt Midwestern in culture, cuisine, or dialect.
I feel like this North - South boundary is more of an Eastern thing. I think people West of Texas are much more similar to each other in culture/accents and stuff like that. The North and South in the Eastern part of the US are like two different worlds!
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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I would agree with that too and on the flip side that refutes the previous poster's point that because there are parts of WV that look like the stereotypical Midwest that those parts of WV are Midwestern. I guess I haven't traveled enough in NW WV, but the parts of WV I've been in haven't felt Midwestern in culture, cuisine, or dialect.
Here's my take on WV...anything along and north of a line from Parkersburg to Clarksburg, basically along U.S. Highway 50, is not the south. Morgantown and Wheeling are definitely Northeastern...Charleston and Huntington on the other hand have more in common with Richmond, Louisville, and Lexington.
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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I feel like this North - South boundary is more of an Eastern thing. I think people West of Texas are much more similar to each other in culture/accents and stuff like that. The North and South in the Eastern part of the US are like two different worlds!
Very good observation. North/South isn't nearly as significant in the West because the cultural divide isn't nearly as sharp. The West is more defined by climate and geography than it is by its inhabitants.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Here's MY opinion of Kentucky divided by Southerness. Of course you could probably have 100 different versions of this map if you asked 99 other people
I feel like this North - South boundary is more of an Eastern thing. I think people West of Texas are much more similar to each other in culture/accents and stuff like that. The North and South in the Eastern part of the US are like two different worlds!
I agree. I think that the dividing line is Washington, DC in the east, as I consider VA southern and MD northern.
I define the north's boundaries by taking the entire eastern seaboard above Washington DC, basically anything east of Cleveland and north of Central WV.
The south's boundaries include every state in the Confederacy except Texas - there the South only covers everything east of the Houston and DFW metros.
All the rest of the country is another region or doesn't really care.
Just as a point of reference, the central latitude of the contiguous United States is 39 degrees 50 minutes. In WV, if you draw a line from Martinsburg to Parkersburg that is about it, everything south of that line is in the southern half of the United States. Not that everything south of that line would be "southern". The Ohio River also plays an important part culturally. All of Virginia is south of the 39.50 latitude. The geographical center of WV is around Sutton, Braxton County.
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