re: Alright, enough of this. Let's settle this "Yankee" debate right now.

You said it was technically a Yankee state. I pointed out that is technically a southern state, much to the chagrin of those living in the Cincy suburbs.

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You got that right my trailer park dwelling friend!

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Being 21, you still live at home with Mommy. Did she slipple the nipple to you today little baby?

Looks more like a dog in a sack race.

I will give The State of Kentucky its due. Maybe we should do a Most/Least Goose-Stepping Communist ranking:

1. Columbia, Missouri -- freakin' Maoist / Red Army







Huge abyss










2. Gainesville, Florida -- European Socialist










3. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
3. Nashville, Tennessee
3. Athens, Georgia
3. Tuscaloosa, Alabama
3. Fayetteville, Arkansas
3. Lexington, Kentucky
3. Knoxville, Tennessee
10. Oxford, Mississippi
10. Starkville, Mississippi
10. Auburn, Alabama
13. Columbia, South Carolina
13. College Station, Texas

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Kentucky, much like Tennessee and Virginia, has a large Appalachian region that isn't even close to the same culturally as the more agrarian parts of the state. They are of Irish/Scottish decent, they were not noble and they were mostly poorer and less inclined to support the Old South.

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I mean, I don't think that anyone is arguing that the mid south, including the southern Appalachians, is the same as the Deep South. (I also would love to hear the argument that somehow people from Alabama are more closely related to nobility than the Revolutionary officers from Virginia that settled Central Kentucky, but that's a separate point). The South isn't necessarily homogenous, which I find kind of nice. As a result, I don't think of things as necessarily more or less southern, just differently southern. I know what people mean when they say this--closer to the belle ideal of the "Old South," but I just don't think of things in terms of "the Deep South is the baseline for southerness and any deviation is a sign of yankeeness".

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I also would love to hear the argument that somehow people from Alabama are more closely related to nobility than the Revolutionary officers from Virginia that settled Central Kentucky, but that's a separate point

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Oh, they aren't. At all. There were, however, large chunks of French refugee nobility from the Napoleanic court (and the French even before that) that settles up and down Southwestern Alabama along the waterways up from Mobile Bay.

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the Deep South is the baseline for southerness and any deviation is a sign of yankeeness

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Totally agree. I mean, I don't think of Nashville as "Deep South", but it is very very very much Southern. For that matter I don't think of Memphis as "Deep South", but anyone arguing Memphis isn't Southern is crazy. Same with Louisiana.

Like you said, each area has it's own separate flavor. The Carolinas are different than South Georgia are different than The Shoals are different than the Bluegrass are different than The Delta are different than Shreveport. All are Southern, all have their own quirks and their own demons.

It's one of the things that I love about the history of the South.

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Being 21, you still live at home with Mommy.

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Yeah I'm 21, not 15. I'll admit, I'm back visiting the mom and dad's house for the week while Mizzou is out for Thanksgiving break. So you got me there.

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Anything Florida at the bottom of a Yankee list is fail. That state is New York's retirement home.

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Yup. And only a yankee wouldn't know that and have them at the bottom of the list. It's easily 1a and 1b for most yankee between Mizzou and UF.

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How does it feel to be part of the Worst. Generation. Ever.?

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Guess which generation has to clean up your generations mess? I doubt I'll be able to retire when I'm 70.