[KentuckyHillBilly5321]

Personally, I dont think there is a difference in "Eastern KY" and "Northern Ky" people. I'm sure there is a perception that we are different...that is a stereotype and some people like to live up to their stereotype I guess. We also learn how to act and if someone tells us that we are better or different then we are going to think that..well some will and some are more aware of what really is and don't care one way or the other.

I'm just wondering where that magic line is drawn to where you are one or the other? Someone enlighten me...we are all in KY right?

Anyway, I dont think differently of anyone from any part of the state..I think there are good and bad people everywhere...there are rich and poor everywhere, there are educated and uneducated everywhere...

Interesting point of view.

I can tell you that I look at things in this manner--but it wouldn't surprise me that some of the knuckleheads up here don't feel that way.

And to a certain extent, even though I would like to hope that I don't think of people differently--there are times where I do.

For instance--whenever I go to Pikeville--I think to myself "wow--people (from up here) may think that Pikeville is a little hick town--but there are more classy people (whether it be personality-wise or even appearance-wise) than anywhere else that I have ever been" (And it isn't like they are trying to keep up--it is more like elegance--which is something that doesn't happen here).

There is a completely different way of dealing with things up here--which usually means to avoid them completely.

Another example: (this is my personal opinion)

NKY: my perception is that people work to buy fancy things
EKY: people work to provide their families

Now, I know that I am casting a broad net--but the deteroriation of morals, standards, doing things the right way--lives and breathes here. (As I am sure that people feel the same way there). But I really think people are different.

After the mining deal--(and I know there are difference between EKY and WV), people here generally felt sorry for those people because they HAD to work in a mine to support their families--as opposed to seeing it as an honorable profession. Again--not everyone is like that--but I have heard it said often.