So, Cincinnati...

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(08-31-2016, 11:22 AM)hollodero Wrote: Wait, I don't get it. (And I'd so much like to solve the puzzle as which Cincinnati residents are the most incestuous. That stuff's important!)

Folks from the Ohio side are transplants from the same region, therefore they're potentially related to each other?
Couldn't something like that be said about most cities in the US? Everywhere there are a lot of folks who were transplanted from the same region, be it Appalachia, Ireland, Germany or whatever.

Folks from the non-Ohio side, however, from what I've learned here, are visiting family reunions to find a spouse. That seems far worse. Or, as we would say back here, aristocratic.

PS I don't want to offend anyone for no reason. And thinking about it, there is a chance that the statement above was just a lie. How would I know, I'm just a clueless foreigner.

It's a joke.....or it should be.  You see, a few folks from Ohio look down their noses at us "poor, dumb hillbillies" just miles down the road from them.  While most of it is good old fashioned, light hearted, and good natured clowning around and "smack talk", there are those who have some sort of superiority complex.


There were small villages and burgs back in earlier centuries in the Appalachian Mtn range where the gene pool wasn't very deep, hell there weren't many folks to choose from!  This is just a continuation of that ridicule.  These days, this rarely, if ever, actually happens, as Kentucky and other Appalachian states have their own metro areas, and "outsiders" have long since moved in, and folks from these regions have moved out.  Shit, my own wife is a "Buckeye".

Now, as for the rest, when the Industrial Revolution dawned, and we moved from an agrarian society to one of mechanization, the factories mostly originated up north.  With that being the case, tons of folks from these areas migrated north to find work in the factories once most of their land had been "bought" or seized for mineral rights (see coal).  I have quite a few distant relatives, and some close ones who did just that in the 40s-70s.  So you see, it stands to reason, that the very people these folks are making fun of, may just be down the line in their very own ancestry.