Comments on: Is Kentucky a Southern state?

By: john Cantrell

john Cantrell — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:53:33 +0000

Being born and raised in Georgia and living in Wisconsin for the last 20 years i think i have a pretty good understanding of the regional differences between north an south. Am i must say conclusively that ky is a southern state. (Espically south of Louisville and Lexington)…Kentucky may not be a in the deep south but would bet the avg kentuckyian has more in common with southerners than northernrs!!!

By: Mike Noyola-Izquierdo

Mike Noyola-Izquierdo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:08:54 +0000

Howard, you’re confusing secession with being Southern. Yes, it’s true that Kentucky stayed in the Union but we did have a separate Confederate governor and a thrid of our troops fought for the South. Our culture (before the strip malls and intersates that make all of us more homogenized than we’d like to admit!) was always more southern than northern,

Remember that we had some
support for the Confederacy during the War, including sending troops to fight on the side of the South
Location below the Mason-Dixon Line
History of slavery and legalized segregation (to our eternal shame as both are evil systems)
Cuisine not characteristic of the North
Hospitality, including form of address, more Southern than Northern

By: HOWARD rice

HOWARD rice — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:40:35 +0000

Yall people in Kentucky are funny. You wanted to be Yanks when it come down to the nut cuttin. When the SOUTH needed the twelfth and thirteenth star (yall and MO.) you all were playing politics. I will never understand why the stars and bars include a place for Mo. and Kentucky (famous for chicken in more way than one). Yall have no more place on the rebel flag than New York City. At least Billy the Kid was from there. I just can’t stand people that say YEA I’m southern 150 years after they had the chance to PROVE IT. KY is nothing but southern Ohio and Indiana which is yankee and NORTHERN…..or anything but southern except to michigan or Canada. So don’t holler I”M SOUTHERN NOW….where were you when the REAL south needed you? Hiding under Lincoln’s coat tails playing politics. When I buy a Rebel Flag I spray paint over 2 stars that were put there by MISTAKE !!!!

By: Katie Beht

Katie Beht — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:23:53 +0000

I Am from southeastern KY, our area is more assosiated with Tennesse than Kentucky!I was always told that if you lived below Lexington you we\’re southern because that is like I guess a civil war bundry, if you live west you we\’re in the Midwest plains, and If you lived above you were a northerner! Me I\’m a mountain girl!

By: Katie Beth

Katie Beth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:22:40 +0000

I Am from southeastern KY, our area is more assosiated with Tennesse than Kentucky!I was always told that if you lived below Lexington you we’re southern because that is like I guess a civil war bundry, if you live west you we’re in the Midwest plains, and If you lived above you were a northerner! Me I’m a mountain girl!

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:00:45 +0000

The fact that Kentucky can be considered anything but Southern, is complete insanity. Whether it be Louisville, Lexington, Covington, or anywhere else in this great State- it’s still Southern.
But, hell, look At Georgia. Atlanta is a darky playground. So when you use large cities like Louisville in a debate discussing whether us Kentuckians are ‘Southern’ or not, I’m not sure how it plays a factor when Georgia (A ‘true’ southern state) contains a city like Atlanta.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:38:57 +0000

I grew up in the Jackson Purchase/Paducah area. I went to college in Southwest Tennessee. Kentucky (at least my part of the state) is without question Southern for good and bad.

I now live in Toledo, and I visit Louisville often because my brother lives there. Louisville is much more closely aligned with obviously Southern cities like Nashville than it is with obviousy Midwestern cities like Toledo/NW Ohio. That’s a good thing. However, Louisville is not as Southern as the Jackson Purchase area.

By: Dave Myers

Dave Myers — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:24:53 +0000

Bluegrass=Southern Roots music..
KY is certainly a Southern State.

By: Richard Day

Richard Day — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:58:36 +0000

OK. One more another thing….

Rita just got home from work and wanted me to tell you what you already know….

All true soutehrners are from Atlanta.

She threw back her shoulders and said it with pride.

By: Richard Day

Richard Day — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:54:32 +0000

And another thing…

I grew up on the Ohio River, within sight of the Mason-Dixon line, but out town did not identify as southern. We were in the midwestern media market and every voice we heard carried that flat “news anchor” style quality.

But the main reason northern Kentuckians knew they weren’t southern was that other Kentuckians always told us we weren’t.