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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:47 AM Original message |
Is Kentucky a Southern State? Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called it South-Eastern today... |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. You never hear anybody say "Kaintuck" anymore. |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. It's southern |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. Sorry, but most of Virginia is part of the South. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:21 AM Response to Original message |
4. Anything south of Pennsylvaina is "Southern". That precedent was established around 1860 or so.... |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Ever heard of the Border States? |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 04:19 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Yup. And, last I heard, they were all still south of the Mason-Dixon line. |
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usaftmo (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 05:28 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. I don't consider Maryland to be a border state. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 05:51 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Maryland stayed with the union in the Civil War. n/t |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 08:37 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. As did Kentucky. |
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usaftmo (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Ok, I stand corrected...but Maryland didn't act friendly |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:42 AM Response to Original message |
6. Take a drive |
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qwertyMike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. They enjoy life |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 04:12 AM Response to Original message |
8. Redneck wannabe McConnell wishes it was. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
10. Mason-Dixon Line determined N v S |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 05:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. That's what I originally thought, but if you look it up, the Mason-Dixon Line doesn't even... |
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kywildcat (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 05:14 AM Response to Original message |
11. From my perspective (15 miles south of Cincinnati) |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 05:22 AM Response to Original message |
12. "Southern" is determined by culture to anthropologists and sociologists |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
14. They seceded from the union retroactively under the leadership of Colonel Sanders |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 06:33 AM Response to Original message |
16. I'll put it this way. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
17. KY is Southern, border state Southern, but Southern as in South of Mason-Dixon |
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