North East? South? Midwest? Something else?
Chef! Don’t put your dick in that… – Kentucky/Tennessee
Damnit. Was thinking of that as well, but in my head he was the other way around so I thought Kentucky would be in the middle instead of the east.
Great question. A lot of government agencies consider Kentucky as part of the southeast, but I would say that culturally Kentucky falls squarely into Appalachia, along with West Virginia, Tennessee, western NC, southwestern Virginia, and southern Ohio. I would also say that Kentucky has a pretty wide metro/rural split, with Lexington and Berea being very different places.
This is basically how I think of it. I know states aren’t one thing, all the way through, but I categorize Kentucky with TN, NC, and WV. There are parts of OH that are basically KY, and NC gets much different further east, but generally, it makes sense. Definitely not midwest. Clearly not Southeast, despite UK being in the SEC.
It could be worse. At least UK is kinda in the Southeastern direction. The Big 10 has 16 schools now…
It’s also not on the Atlantic coast despite Louisville being in the ACC.
South of Ohio and north of Tennessee? I think. I lived in Louisville for 5 months, which was fairly strange. A high school girlfriend moved from New England to hickledicklefuck eastern Kentucky and somehow got a southern accent and became a fascist Christian in about 6 months. The church she was in, though, split off from the main one in town over a dispute about speaking in tongues and snake handling.
I don’t believe you but upvoted for the chuckle
I do - I’ve both seen & heard some shit first & second hand. I’m guessing she fell into some extremist Pentecostal groups as they both speak in tongue & handle snakes.
Also areas full of Christian’s like that can really wrap the minds of people you’d think would know better. To this day I’m still bothered by how my area ruined the lives of 2 artists that I was convinced were going to go on to do great things. I fully blame the area they grew up in, so much talent squandered - literally any where else their talents would have got noticed & no telling how much better their lives would have been.
Unfortunately, this is completely true.
Appalachia really is its own region and that should be more widely acknowledged. Kentucky is in Appalachia.
The middle-east, where all the religious fanatics come from, a theocratic state.
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Midwesterners will say it’s the South, Southerners will say it’s the Midwest. Like a geographical game of hot potato.
North West South East
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Middle east southish is actually a pretty good description
Pretty close. It’s about in the middle, but to the east of the center of the country. Culturally though it is part of “the south”.
I was with you until the last sentence.
Well, welcome to eastern Kentucky. I went to visit her and we went to church in a pastor’s living room and she explained that was what happened. A group of 15-20 people split off from the main church in town because the main church had started doing speaking in tongues and snake handling, which is considered legitimate among some Christians.
Not even, they fought for the Union!
Still Southern.
Kentucky is definitely considered to be Southern these days, though.
Kentuckians don’t consider themselves that way. Geologically and economically they have little in common with the South.
That wasn’t my experience there, but okay. It is situated in a unique location that’s sort of Midwest, east coast and southern at the same time.
I looked up discussions about this and found this one. Opinions vary from “absolutely yes” to “sort of” to “definitely not”, so it’s up to you.
Somewhere to the right.
I’m in California tho. Everything except Alaska and Hawaii is to the right.
Middle East
Before playing Statele, I would have told you it was in the deep south, and on the Atlantic coast. I’m continually surprised both by how far north it is, and how not Tennessee it is.
The region of fried chicken.
Bible Belt, yeah? Definitely not Midwest or South.
South East.
