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Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Re Cincinnati... it is a very Northern city that has taken in a large number of people from rural Kentucky, West Virginia, even east Tennessee over the past 100 years. Those people (including many older people in my family) tended to settle in neighborhoods near industrial areas. The Mill Creek Valley of Cincy was where the lion's share of Southerners moved to, places like St Bernard, Carthage, Lockland, and further out in Hamilton and Middletown. It's also a popular day trip destination for people in those areas. The overwhelming share of White people in Cincinnati are German Catholics.
Louisville is more of a real North / South hybrid city. I've moved here in 2002 after growing up in other parts of Kentucky and I'm still not sure there is just one accent that dominates here. A native can sound like someone from Iowa or someone from Butcher Haller KY. In general the east part of town is more Midwestern (with similar accents to Cincinnati) while the south / west parts are more Southern, but it's not 100%. The Indiana side is also a South / North hybrid.
Most of Alabama's most notable cities aren't nearly identical; Mobile the oldest city with French/Spanish history, Montgomery the state's capitol, Birmingham with it's iron/steel history, and Huntsville the "Rocket" city. The economy is different throughout the state; Birmingham went from Industrial to Banking and Medical Research, Government, and Manufacturing in Montgomery, the Ports and State Docks in Mobile, and Aerospace, and Military Technology in Huntsville. And several other little things such as Architecture, Topography, Landscape, and etc. Huntsville with Tennessee similarities, Montgomery and West Georgia, Mobile and Louisiana, and Birmingham sharing similarities with the Midwest. Just things you observe when you study and research about America's history, along with Geography.
Same for states like California, Texas, and Florida. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin; same thing can be applied to those particular cities. Especially if you include biodiversity as well...
Yep ! Alabama's 4 major cities have a few commonalities but over all they are different.
Connecticut. It's torn between classic New England (and for all the crap we give CT, it really has some of the nicest NE villages and landscapes) and Metropolitan New York.
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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Connecticut. It's torn between classic New England (and for all the crap we give CT, it really has some of the nicest NE villages and landscapes) and Metropolitan New York.
I think the NYC region is so much smaller than the rest of CT though. Not sure it really counts as enough to make the whole state a hybrid. Most of CT is pretty uniformly New England.
^physically speaking, you're definitely right. It's the small southwest corner of the state. Population-wise (and economically), it's. Bit more even. But I think in the spirit of this thread, you're probably right.
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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^physically speaking, you're definitely right. It's the small southwest corner of the state. Population-wise (and economically), it's. Bit more even. But I think in the spirit of this thread, you're probably right.
Out of curiosity, is that the most densely populated part of CT?
Out of curiosity, is that the most densely populated part of CT?
Yes, although the I-91 corridor and Hartford/New Britain are pretty dense too.
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