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Old 01-10-2014, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Cleveland
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Which of the cities most resembles the image of Ohio that you have in your head, and which least resembles it?
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Old 01-11-2014, 11:28 AM
 
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What's the archetypal Ohio image?

Having grown up and lived here our entire lives, most board participants who will see your message don't have the distance necessary to think like an outsider and communicate the "archetypal" image.

I don't think Ohio has much of an archetype, frankly. A lot of states really don't.

New Jersey == refineries, shore, Jersey Shore, "hey! what'r you lookin' at?".

Nebraska == flat, fields, crops, wide open spaces.

Alabama == group of same name.

Kentucky == horses, bluegrass, bourbon.

Ohio doesn't have a strong regional image like any of these. I don't think.
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Old 01-11-2014, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Springfield, Ohio
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Ohio = factories & farms

Columbus probably embodies the plain/inoffensive/homogeneous image, while Cleveland embodies the Rust Belt image.
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Old 01-11-2014, 05:24 PM
 
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^ Agree. Ohio to most of the urban US means rural+heavily industrialized, kind of a Midwestern New Jersey. And, yeah, that's much accurate. Agree on the two cities you picked.

Cincinnati is too New Yorky/piquant/urban to represent Ohio in this context. The other big cities are not well known enough. (Even citing Columbus is stretching things since there are several other Columbuses around the US, but it's definitely got the flat cowtown image.)
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Old 01-11-2014, 06:02 PM
 
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cowtown image? what does that even mean? and cincinnati being the new york of ohio? really?
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Old 01-11-2014, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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Nationally, the perception is that Ohio is largely farms and corn fields. Then there's Cincinnati and Cleveland which are seen as basically Detroit. Nobody really knows anything about Columbus. Is there really an image of Ohio?
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Old 01-12-2014, 12:01 PM
 
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Columbus is the city that probably most represents Ohio to most people in the country. Cincinnati probably the least. Cincinnati seems culturally closer to St. Louis
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Old 01-14-2014, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Windsor Ontario/Colchester Ontario
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I think of the rust belt, cities like Cleveland and Toledo when I think of Ohio, as well as Cincy and the Ohio river for the south.
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