March 21, 200719 yr 65% Dixie So I have had this conversation over and over again with friends throughout the Bluegrass state. Why do people in Kentucky consider it to be a southern state? Geographically it certainly isn't. It was divided in the Civil War. Yet many of the populace in KY consider themselves "southern". I'm a transplant to this region and I really don't see it as southern, maybe in the areas south of Lexington and possibly eastern kentucky. However, the majority of the population is NOT southern. It's Southern by culture. I've been in Tennessee, Georgia, and other Southern states, and Kentucky is just as southern as they are culturally. As far as "geography" is concerned, there has to be a northern boundary to the region, and Kentucky and Virginia are the northern most part of the South.
March 21, 200719 yr 65% Dixie So I have had this conversation over and over again with friends throughout the Bluegrass state. Why do people in Kentucky consider it to be a southern state? Geographically it certainly isn't. It was divided in the Civil War. Yet many of the populace in KY consider themselves "southern". I'm a transplant to this region and I really don't see it as southern, maybe in the areas south of Lexington and possibly eastern kentucky. However, the majority of the population is NOT southern. Maybe it is the tradition's brought into the family over the year's. My Grandmother made an awesome "Apple Stack Cake". My Mom was raised in Wisconson, but her parent's both grew up in Dry Ridge/Cumberland Gap area. I will say one thing our youngest son said about Maysville, KY. He was traveling through with his rugby team last year, and they stopped at a drug store. The nicest man just stopped to talk to him. It wasn't anything important, but it reminded him of growing up in Georgia. Just friendly.
March 21, 200719 yr Some of these I don't agree with. I checked that I call the carbonated drink "pop" and the answer said that that was a northern term. Well, I'm a Southerner from Eastern Kentucky and almost everyone I know calls it a "pop". I didn't hear the term "soda" until some of my relatives from Cleveland were visiting when I was a teenager. Pop has always been something we drink and soda (baking soda)is something you use when you make biscuits:thumb: :lol:
March 21, 200719 yr 76% Dixie. I really would have thought that lower. No complaints though.I think the test is weighted to Dixie, personally. For one thing, they define 'Yankee' as supreme upper midwest and New England (although there was a NY/NJ question, which is NOT New England) dialects and colloquialisms, whereas 'Southern' is bounded only by the imagination, apparently. I seem to remember a longer version of this test that was more accurate.
March 21, 200719 yr 74% Dixie...I'll now go have a Coke (root beer) with my aunt and sat on the porch and count cars. Frig is also on the porch, but we will be in my car. A couple of the questions I didn't understand them so I guessed.
March 29, 200719 yr I was 71% Dixie and couldn't believe it! I talk to people all across the U.S and Canada on a daily basis. Even have a friend I talk to from Canada daily that was born and raised there. I honestly thought each of my answers were making me more and more Yankee, which isn't really at all how I'd say I am, if I had to classify myself I'd call me MODERN DIXIE. I guess that's kinda what the test proved as well. Certainly took me a bit by surprise to be honest, I guess it all comes from them roots, good ole up bringin.
March 29, 200719 yr North of the river is defiinately Yankee. Saying please when you don't understand someone is waaaaay to polite to be a Yankee saying. I would agree, perhaps I got my Dixie from my Dad living in Winchester for about 6-7 years and me dating quite a few girls about 20-30 miles south of 275 in KY...
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