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.
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Date: 2008-10-26 01:16 pm (UTC)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,