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Old 10-13-2009, 06:03 PM
 
Location: Fayetteville, NC
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Born and raised in Martinsville and Southern Indiana starts at Mooresville.

At least it did when I lived there. Martinsville has always had a southern flavor. My family has been in Morgan County since 1819. They came from NC with a few years in TN. I'm back in NC after all these years.
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Old 10-13-2009, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Arkansas
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I would still call it a stretch to place any portion of Indiana in the South...
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Old 10-15-2009, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Frankfort, IN
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I'd have to agree with the Terre Haute/Martinsville scenario on this one
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Old 02-14-2010, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Indiana
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Martinsville, located in the seat of Morgan county SW of Indianapolis, has the slogan "The Beautiful Gateway to Southern Indiana". Morgan is very beautiful and different than counties to her north, topographically with her hills, hollers, steep ridges and creeks, and culturally as her population is majoritarily Scot-Irish rather than German-Swiss.

The speech ranges from no-accent to near Kentucky dialect. The accent variations can be as specific as individual families, many whom are direct descendants of recent Upland-South immigrants who emigrated for work in Indianapolis and settled on the closest land that reminded them of home. Many counties east, west and even south of Morgan have less of an actual cultural-Southern influence. Other counties - South - have more, especially boarding on Kentucky.

I'm personally honored being from Morgan. It's like a piece of Dixie north of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Old 02-15-2010, 09:02 PM
 
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I'm personally honored being from Morgan. It's like a piece of Dixie north of the Mason-Dixon line.
With your history of racially-tinged posts, I can't say I'm surprised.
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Old 02-16-2010, 03:31 PM
 
Location: From Elmendorf to Eglin
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I would say that you could draw a straight line from Sullivan County over to Dearborne County and everything South of that is Southern Indiana. Of course none of that really matters though because nowhere in Indiana is it truely the South. I have lived all over this country and people from Southern Indiana are very unique. Just one of those things that you can't quite put your finger on. I'll be glad to come home.
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Old 02-16-2010, 09:09 PM
 
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What hoosier wouldn't know where Evansville is?
I am from north eastern Indiana and I consider south of Indy, to be southern Indiana. I guess it all depends on where you are from????
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Old 02-17-2010, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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I agree it starts a couple counties south of Indy. Also, I don't think I have ever seen as many chain restuarants in my life than I have in Clark County, IN (population of the county is less than 110,000).
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Old 08-30-2010, 12:31 PM
 
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The smaller the town the bigger the twang.
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Old 05-07-2011, 12:20 AM
 
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Future Trooper's Map is pretty much right on.
I'm from Martin & Orange County tribes. My folks are from Shoals & French Lick. I spent a lot of time down there growing up, but I lived a few miles north and went to school in Greene Co. Right on the line...
I still have a bit of an accent I can't shake, even after living out in Oregon for 10 years.
GraniteStater - Check Bedford, IN for maximum proliferation of chain restaurants.
A city of 12,000 or so with three restaurants that aren't fast food chains.
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