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I was watching a popular cooking show the other day and it was set in Arkansas. I was looking at the people trying to determine who they were most like. To me, AR seems a little southern and a little appalachian yet its location is towards the West. I was thinking WV is kind of in the same situation. Not really northern by northern standards yet seems southern-appalachian to me. Are AR and WV similar or no?
Never been to Arkansas but WV feels kind of Midwestern/Appalachian to me. It has Midwest and Southern attributes. The people are probably very similar but the climate/geography is different in both areas. Both states are kind of rural though and neither one has a LARGE city.
It depends on where in WV you are at, the northern part from Morgantown all the way to the northern panhandle including Wheeling and Weirton aren't southern at all. This part of WV has a very strong Pittsburgh influence, which I don't consider to be southern. They get Pittsburgh channels and root for Pittsburgh teams. Keep in mind the downtown Weirton, WV is 35 miles from downtown Pittsburgh and is like 20 miles from Pittsburgh's airport. Once you get past Charleston then I would agree.
Most of Arkansas is actually more like Tennessee than it is West Virginia. Memphis is the epicenter of culture, nightlife, concerts, shopping, etc for pretty much the entire eastern half of the state including Little Rock. Arkansas from Little Rock eastward definitely feels like part of the Southeastern United States.
Arkansas is blacker than West Virginia, and not quite as remote. There are some similarities between the Ozarks and the southern Appalachians, but the Mississippi Delta region in Arkansas is basically the deep South, while northern West Virginia is basically part of the interior Northeast, and not Southern at all.
I was watching a popular cooking show the other day and it was set in Arkansas. I was looking at the people trying to determine who they were most like. To me, AR seems a little southern and a little appalachian yet its location is towards the West. I was thinking WV is kind of in the same situation. Not really northern by northern standards yet seems southern-appalachian to me. Are AR and WV similar or no?
I'm not sure what kind of cooking it was to make you think of West Virginia, but here is a link to Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods filmed in West Virginia.
The Ozark region of AR feels very, very similar to the Appalachian region of WV.
However, southeast Arkansas feels about like Mississippi to me while northern WV feels like Pennsylvania or Ohio to me.
That's just my perspective.
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