North East? South? Midwest? Something else?
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’s also not on the Atlantic coast despite Louisville being in the ACC.
It could be worse. At least UK is kinda in the Southeastern direction. The Big 10 has 16 schools now…
The middle-east, where all the religious fanatics come from, a theocratic state.
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.
Appalachia really is its own region and that should be more widely acknowledged. Kentucky is in Appalachia.
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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.
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.
Kentucky is the North South.
The region of fried chicken.
Southern Appalachia
Smack dab in the middle of the perineum.
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