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This is a random question, I thought of after reading through the threads that referred to many people moving from Ohio, Indiana, etc as Yankees in the Kentucky forum. I was wondering if yall would personally consider someone from a border state/area such as Missouri, West VA, or northern VA as a yankee in most parts of Kentucky or would you see them as fellow southerners. I ask this also because many places in these states are at a similar latitude to parts of Kentucky although they are frequently considered parts of other regions.
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This is a random question, I thought of after reading through the threads that referred to many people moving from Ohio, Indiana, etc as Yankees in the Kentucky forum. I was wondering if yall would personally consider someone from a border state/area such as Missouri, West VA, or northern VA as a yankee in most parts of Kentucky or would you see them as fellow southerners. I ask this also because many places in these states are at a similar latitude to parts of Kentucky although they are frequently considered parts of other regions.
Well I actually moved to the Louisville area from Northern VA (Alexandria) and I haven't caught any flak for being a yankee other than a harmless joke here and there. Maybe b/c I claim Southern VA as my home area (lived there from age 2-16). But I think if I didnt move to Louisville or Ft. Knox I would be considered a yankee being from NoVA.
Well I actually moved to the Louisville area from Northern VA (Alexandria) and I haven't caught any flak for being a yankee other than a harmless joke here and there. Maybe b/c I claim Southern VA as my home area (lived there from age 2-16). But I think if I didnt move to Louisville or Ft. Knox I would be considered a yankee being from NoVA.
Lol. I figured it was possible. I am from southside VA (southcentral VA) and people from Northern VA (NOVA) get called yankee down there also by some people. The people in southside VA also still do the civil war reinactments and some have paintings of General Lee on there wall and brag about how they are related to him. FFV (First families of Virginia) is also big in that area as well as Richmond.
Someone from Missouri is not a Yankee. Someone from New York is a Yankee.....
As a matter of technicality, this is correct. As a matter of how they'll be viewed socio-culturally in a Southern state, some people will make no differentiation.
I mean, hell, go to South Georgia and South Alabama and tell a local you're from Kentucky. It won't matter that you're from London or I'm originally from W. Kentucky. I guarantee you someone will label us as "Yankees."
As a matter of technicality, this is correct. As a matter of how they'll be viewed socio-culturally in a Southern state, some people will make no differentiation.
I mean, hell, go to South Georgia and South Alabama and tell a local you're from Kentucky. It won't matter that you're from London or I'm originally from W. Kentucky. I guarantee you someone will label us as "Yankees."
Thanks for the response. What about West VA? I agree with you about the second paragraph. I think many people in the deep south consider the upper south as northerners (KY, VA, sometimes even parts of NC). I get the same thing from some people in Alabama, Georgia, etc from being from southern Virginia. Those people tend to lump northern VA with southern VA.
I've never been called a Yankee in my travels to western KY from Missouri, and believe you and me I would take a very strong offense to being called such.
I think people consider a yankee, someone from any state that actually touches a dirty northern state. Northern state being any state above the original mason dixon line. So WV, VA although having strong Appalachia/southern roots could be easily lumped with yanks, because after all VA rubs on Washington(ickkky)....
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