REALLY IMPORTANT POLL

[brigdh]

rm and I have been having this argument discussion for years, and I need to ask your opinion. Also, I'm totally not going to sway your opinion by telling you that Ohio is in the East Coast timezone.

[Poll #1733722]

ETA: I mean culturally, not geographically (though obviously the two are linked).

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

This.

I wouldn't call WV, Kentucky, or Tennessee "east coast," either.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would call all three of those 'south', actually.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Also true.

My apologies, I did not mean to imply that Ohio was the South.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha, no worries, that's not what I meant either, just I also wouldn't call WV, Tennessee and Kentucky 'east coast', but I also wouldn't call them 'midwest'.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

We call them South (here in Detroit) but I think technically they are "Appalachia"

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

er, in cultural terms, not geographical :)

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

Ohio is north of the Mason Dixon line, West Virginia and Kentucky are not. So crossing the Ohio River was originally the end point of the Underground Railroad before the line was moved and slaves had to go all the way to Canada to escape. There is a lot of history with escaped slaves beginning new lives in Cincinnati and old houses on both sides of the river that have hidden rooms in the basements and such.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

With all due respect to my Learned Friend, the last time I checked on a globe, all of you Huckleberry chaps were in the South.

Do you really need that state level of government? Can't you all just be Free Hillbillies together?

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

These states being the part of the world I've lived in, I generally refer to Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana as the "Ohio Valley", with Ohio and Indiana also figuring into the "Midwest".