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He left out “Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that”
I’ve been to Kentucky once. The first thing I think is “beautiful in the winter.”
Yeah my uncle used to live there and when we visited I thought the landscape was just gorgeous. He lived in this house that was built in the 1800′s, I swear there were ghosts in there ^_^
Except, not. But hey, if you want to persist in stereotyping an entire state, go ahead. It’s a free country.
Many mountain towns were very isolated and people married within their families.
No one else would think of bourbon? Sad. So very sad.
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That’s the FIRST thing I thought of! This graph needs to be revised.
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i lol’d at south africa
Have you even been to Kentucky?
The cities farther north aren’t really like that. Louisville, for example, has a whole lot of democrats, and some nationally acclaimed schools. Much of the state is more Midwestern than Southeastern in attitude.
And though there are some crazies, look around your own state…you’ll find plenty!
I agree with sara bellum…have you ever visited KY?
I don’t mean only the northern cities…like I said, plenty of sane people all around the state.
I’m from western KY, Paducah to be exact. Although the smaller towns around here have their fair share of rednecky people, Paducah is actually pretty liberal. There are plenty of different types of people around here and we’re certainly not inbred. NOW eastern Kentucky, I’ve heard is very different and very… hillbilly-ish. I don’t know that for sure as I haven’t been farther east than Louisville, but even KY people will stereotype others in other parts of the state.
Nah, the part of the state west of the lakes doesn’t exist. I should know… you go to Louisville and say you’re from Paducah and they look at you funny.
*is also from Paducah*
Being from Kentucky does not automatically equal ‘uneducated racist redneck’. Every state has its share of idiots, but Kentucky seems to get the short end of the stick with the stereotypes. Most are no doubt due to perceptions of Appalachia… but Kentucky is a sizable state with a variety of people and cultures, and “mountain folk” are only a small percent, on one end of the state.
Yeah, I’m from Paducah and I have Prada. Prada is not redneck!
Please shut up. What you said made no sense.
I doubt “Again” has been to Kentucky. Their loss.
I have lived in Kentucky my entire life and this is unfortunately, however hilariously, true. Regardless of where I am (although the farther south you go, the truer this graph is; the south is odd in that way) people stereotype Kentucky in one of these ways. Louisville is like any other mid-to-large-sized city; the smaller cities to the north are just like any other small city…anywhere; and the rural parts are simply rural: the people are nice and generally make do with what they have and produce.
Oh, and we grow the 2nd most pot in the country. That’s good too.
Word.
I think of guys with creamy-dreamy accents.
Then the derby.
So whichever state you are from must be full of ignorant people. You obviously have no clue.
I’m sure this is true. But I strike your Kentucky and raise you a West Virginia. Half the country doesn’t know it’s a state, and three-quarters of the half that does makes fun of it. Generally to our faces.
Yes, I have all my teeth. Yes, I have shoes. No, I have not dated/wanted to date my cousins. No, you’re not ‘just kidding’, you’re just ignorant.
See, strike. Whatever. You know what I meant.
*Is also from West Virginia*
When my sister went to DC, someone asked her if she wore shoes at home. XD Which is weird, because we’re actually farther north than DC is.
I haven’t been to a lot of places in southern WV, but I’m fairly sure at least the parts I’ve been to are normal.
ALTHOUGH, I do know of one kid that dated his second or third cousin. When they found out they were related, the girl dumped him immediately, but apparently he wanted to keep dating her and claimed that it was okay as long as they “didn’t do stuff.” 0_o
So yeah, State stereotypes can be pretty bad sometime, but they’re also pretty funny.
I know exactly how both of you feel. I’m from West Virginia as well, and although some days I can take it as a joke, sometimes it’s obviously blatant ignorance.
My choir teacher, who goes down south often, says that some of the people down there still think West Virginia is actually Western Virginia! She says they don’t believe her when she says its a state. Granted those people are idiots for not even knowing their states, but it’s still bugs me that as soon as they accept West Virginia as a state, they follow most of the nation and go straight into stereotyping us.
“My choir teacher, who goes down south often, says that some of the people down there still think West Virginia is actually Western Virginia!”
And, there you are, doing the same stereotyping you complain about. It’s fine, as long as it’s not about your home, right?
I’ve never suggested anyone from WV would date his/her cousins. That’s what y’all have goats for
I’m from Tennessee, and oh, lord, we get it too. I’m thankful that I managed to ditch my accent when I got out of the state, the ribbing was just ridiculous.
The goat comment cracked me up; there’s actually an area not far from where I live that the rest of us have just sort of decided has something freaky going on with sheep. It’s not true, of course.
…You know, probably. :l
Yeah yeah yeah but have you ever met the Colonel?
Being from South Carolina, I feel your pain–perhaps even in an intensified form. We’ve got all the Southern stereotypes *in addition* to our wayward governor, outbursting senator, and general crazy politicians. Woo.
I’m an Aussie who visited Kentucky last September and found the people very welcoming and the beautiful green countryside just breathtaking. Can’t wait to see it in winter.
Green? You mean it’s not really blue?
FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS
Honestly, any state I’ve never been to gets a noncommittal “oh, cool”. Any I have been to gets a “oh, I like it there!”. Except for Florida. Florida is hell and can go drown itself.
I’m from southern Kentucky, I have all my teeth, I wear shoes, and I have a job! I’m not on Welfare, i’ve never had any romantic interest in my cousins, and I don’t have 15 children with unknown fathers. It’s not that uncommon! It’s just like anywhere else, except with mountains.
I’ve been to Kentucky once. In some parts it basically was the exact stereotype you’d expect of Kentucky with banjos and goats tied up in the front yard, but often less than one mile away you’d find suburbs with two story duplexes.
Someone mentioned the Klan. What’s hilarious is that I never met an actual card carrying Klan member till I moved from Kentucky to Iowa. He was quite proud of his backwards thinking. I grew up in Maysville KY and there are few places that are more naturally scenic than the Ohio River Valley, once you get past the coal power plants anyway
Holy crap, Maysville? My great grandmother lived in that area for like… 70 years!!! O-O I went there all the time to throw apples at the cows.
I found myself thinking, “I live in Kentucky and I never get these responses from people.” Then I remembered that I always tell people I’m from the Cincinnati area, since I live right on the border. I go to school in Boston and I don’t want them to assume I’m some redneck conservative, instead of the bleeding heart liberal that I am.
I think Northern Kentucky is a whole different state from the rest of Kentucky. Sadly, I’ve never been to any other part of the state, so I can’t speak for the rest of it. But I did learn in my biology class that a disease started in Kentucky because people were eating squirrel.
I hear you on the NKY being a whole other state from KY. I live so close to Cincy it lights up the sky at night, just beyond our barn. Down where my cousin lives (Greensburg) things are waaaay different. Super beautiful, but don’t go down roads you don’t know because you will probably get shot.
After getting my undergraduate degree from a fine midwestern institution, I immediately moved to Southern California. After dealing with highly superficial and minimally educated people there (everyone – even in Beverly Hills and West L.A. seems to work retail??), I decided to move to Phoenix. That has to be be one of the most conservative BACKwards-thinking places on earth (re: SB1070 and Sheriff Joe)! After researching for a full year and a half for the “ideal” place to move, I chose Louisville, KY. I have found this city to be very intelligent, progressive, socially responsible, safe, and FRIENDLY. It’s amazing that it took living in two of the largest cities in America to realize this. I love it here and feel very safe here. Anyone who thinks otherwise obviously has never been to this fine state.
BTW, Aza, what Ivy League school is in Lexington?
You forgot “No you’re not, you have too many teeth.”
Bowling Greenite here. It has always made me feel kind-of connected to the world, the KFC thing. I have friends in Chile, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, and Sweden who haven’t heard of, say, Ohio or Nebraska, but who recognize Kentucky immediately because of KFC. Of course, they always ask if KFC is better in Kentucky, and I have to tell them that, sadly, it’s worse.
But Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken is better!
Do you know Cody Lane?
not to mention that kfc was born in utah.
The first restaurant named “Kentucky Fried Chicken” was opened in Utah, but Sanders had been selling franchises all over the country before then. The recipe was developed in Kentucky and the headquarters has always been in Louisville (even when Pepsi owned the company).
just wondering. is being a conservative a bad thing. because i think that there are just as many dumbass liberals as there are dumbass conservatives. im just sayin…
You’ll find doofuses everywhere….
the first kfc was built in utah
The first KFC was built in Corbin KY you ever been there
How would you know?
Another Bowling Greenite here. I remember going to Disney in high school on a band trip. A couple of jerks from Jersey (I’m saying these two guys were jerks, not stereotyping the whole state) starting making fun of us, claiming we must have stolen the shoes we were wearing and we were all inbred hillbillies. Needless to say, Park Security removed them from the happiest place on earth.
Actually, the first KFC was not built in Utah. The original restaurant was built in Corbin in the southeastern corner of the state. The first franchise was built in Utah about 20 years later.
I worked in a call center in NKY for many years. Most of my co-workers just said Cincinnati when asked where they were to avoid all of the crap about living in KY. I personally love living here. It is a very beautiful state with a wide variety of landscape, not just the mountains. And BTW, the Ohio river is mostly managed by the state of Ky here because it is mostly on our side of the state line!
I would say this is an accurate graph, lol. This pretty much sums up what I hear, haha, especially being from eastern Kentucky. Very funny. Kentucky kicks ass though, lets be honest with ourselves here.
I’ve been to Kentucky. They put white gravy on chili rellenos. That is just perverted.
Even if it’s not accurate, it’s hecka flippin funny!
How is the entire state I live in backwards? Yes, we have rednecks, GOP, and guns, but we also have a lot of people who hate those people. Also, guns are much more prolific in Alaska – my fiance moved here from there and was surprised that walking around with a gun on your back was considered odd here. To answer your question, I’m pretty sure we don’t have the Klan anymore, but Cincinnati does have a NeoNazi party.
Actually, the Klan does still sadly exist in Kentucky. Actually, the International Klans of America (IKA) has its own armed/gated compound in the hills just outside of Louisville. The beating of the Native American boy Jordan Gruber (I believe that was his last name) at a county fair in Brandenburg I believe it was occurred in 2005 or 2007, and was done by members of the IKA because the boy was arguing with his white girlfriend. The IKA kicked the members responsible for the beating out of the group, but the Southern Poverty Law Center won a judgment against the founder/president of the IKA for over a million dollars, the jury determining that he was ultimately responsible for the beating. The IKA “believes” in accepting all manner of white supremacists – NeoNazis, skinheads, far right wing conservatives with supremacist leanings, traditional Klan, etc. Pretty dangerous group who have chosen a paramilitary structure.
i would either be like ‘cool’ or ‘meh, whatever’
Louisville has one of the best medical teaching colleges in the country. Kentucky is the world hub for UPS. Auto manufacturing here is big with Ford Trucks, Toyota and Corvette all located in the Bluegrass State. They have spawned the spin off industry of brakes, glass, interiors and electrical components. We have our fair share of good-ol boys, but then every state does. I am proud to be a conservative in one of the most conservative states, I do own guns, I hunt and fish, but also work in one of the most hi-tech computer labs the defense industry has. As far as shoes – Zappos.com is located just South of L’ville and has a great retail store attached to their shipping department. Backwards state – I really don’t think so. Kentucky colleges usually send three or more basketball teams to the NCAA tournament each year and many of the players are also Academic All Americans.
Zappos.com has its headquarters out west, but there is a distribution warehouse in Louisville (just as there is a Cafe Press production facility and warehouse in the city), and that’s due to the UPS Worldport.
Many companies also subcontract their warehousing to UPS Supply Chain Solutions, just south of the airport.
There are three Amazon.com warehouses in the state, too.
I did not know about the Zappos store. Is it in the Riverport area, south of Rubbertown (which, for the rest of you, is where synthetic rubber was developed during WWII)?
Zappos is at Shepardsville, exit 116 from I-65.
Home of Slint.
Going to an ivy league school doesn’t mean you qualify to know what an Iv League school is. The term Ivy League is becoming broader. While the oldest Ivy League schools are the most notable and have the “official” designation, there are many schools across the nation who name can rightly claim that they provide an Ivy League education without the Ivy League costs. You can look at the college ranking guides to get that information.
In regards to the graph: I grew up in Louisville and now I live in Central KY. Within less than an hour drive, it is a completely different culture. Like someone said below, Louisville is much more diverse and socially progressive. It’s even the home of the original Lebowsk Fest!
Yeah.. Forgot another one too. “Hmm… I knew your accent couldn’t've been from around here. Sounds too northern”
See KeepLouisvilleWeird.com. Louisville may as well be another state.
Soo many people are stereotypes. I live in Campbellsville/ Taylor county in the heart of freakin Kentucky! we do not have that many people with goats tied up in the front yards of their homes. we dont carry guns with us, and we even have a good PGA golfer J.B Holmes
People say that Kentuckians are poor and ignorant but were the ones working while you sit on your ass and think of some of the stupidest and most outlandish things I’ve ever heard of. I’ll admit there are some people on welfare but tell me a state that doesn’t have somebody without shoes and on welfare.