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[captain_slinky]

khristle doesn't think that Kentucky is part of "The South".

Y'know... Kentucky Derby, "My Old Kentucky Home", Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bluegrass music...

She says "They're not part of The South... they're just kinda slow".

What do YOU think?

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[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

I put forth two irrefutable facts -

1) My husband is southern, and he says Kentucky is in the south.
2) Kentucky is south of the Mason-Dixon line, commonly considered to separate the north from the south.

However - she is right about them being slow.

[khristle.livejournal.com]

So parts of Ohio should be considered "The South"?

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

According to Wiki-Pedia, no part of Ohio is south of the Mason-Dixon line. So. No.

Unless you meant because some of them are slow. And then we'd have to add a *lot* more states to "the south".

[khristle.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. You go from the bottom of the vertical line and anything below that is "The South". I was just extending the horizontal line westward.

Anyway, this whole thing has been muddled now, but I think I was trying to say that Kentucky isn't the south geographically speaking. I consider Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and the Carolinas to be "The South".

[jrsonday.livejournal.com]

Living in GA, I say it depends which part of KY. By Cincy? No. By the border in TN/around Cumberland? Oh dear lord yes.

[jrsonday.livejournal.com]

Although I agree with the above commenter.

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

Kentucky fought on the side of the Confederacy. So, I'd say it is CERTAINLY part of the South. Yet, large parts of it are 'Slow'.

[khristle.livejournal.com]

Kentucky was a border state in the Civil war and were pretty much split 50/50. When you hear about the Civil war being about "brother fighting brother" they are pretty much talking about Kentucky. Also, Lincoln was born there.

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

Definitely - maybe...

[rogh-sensei.livejournal.com]

Kentucky is Diet South. Technically north of the Mason-Dixon line, it's the home of Kentucky Blue Grass (the plant) not bluegrass music, which has a much more obscure location of genesis but is generally accepted as being the mountain ranges of the Appalachian chain.

The plantation mentality never really took over in Kentucky, so while agriculture was a goodly part of their early economy, it wasn't so much to do with cotton growing as it was livestock.

This is not to say that you won't find some really inbred jugband motherfuckers in KY, but you can find those in ANY state. The South is just known for the particular quality and cast of their rednecks, as San Fransisco is known for its sourdough breadgay people or the Pacific Northwest is known for its dirty hippy-and-flannel population.

So once again, khristle is right. You should know that by now. They're ALWAYS right.

[cast-aspersions.livejournal.com]

being canadian, i know very little about america and i kind of want to keep it that way. therefore, based on my astounding ignorance, i believe that kentucky is not the south and they are kind of slow. when i visited the united states of america, kentucky was hickville extraordinaire in my uneducated eyes -- even tennessee didn't seem that bad in comparison.