So, Cincinnati...

[hollodero]

(08-31-2016, 12:38 PM)Wyche Wrote: 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. 

Got it. So basically, when some Ohio folk imply the Kentucky side's ancestry is an incestry, you reply theirs might be too on the very same grounds. Interesting.

OK, some more questions. Why is there a "National Underground Railway Freedom Center" close to the stadium? A national underground railway freedom center? That is confusing. How did the word freedom get into a national underground railway center and do you really need a center like that, and if so, why?

Plus, some more puzzling stuff. How comes you call a whole quarter "Over the Rhine", when my research discovered that the river is actually the Ohio River. German ancestry fine and well, but it's just not the Rhine! You got that one all wrong. Talking of rivers, don't call a river "Licking River". That's just a stupid name for a river. And for anything else apart from ice cream.

Finally, there seems to be a town called "Delhi". Is that some kind of Indian reservation, only for actual Indians? That all is so confusing.