Att: Visiting southern and midwestern hayseeds

[itgoeslike]

So lots of folks from Connecticut are Thunder fans?

No, we are fans of our alums.

 

[buddy]

B

I hear that Boston College is going after the New England market...really coveting Rhode Island.

FSU is playing a baseball series there this weekend...just finished a double header today...playing on the Rhode Island campus. WTF? Boston playing a home series on the R.I. campus?

BC and FSU and all of their fans should -OFF!

 

[storrsroars]

I tend to agree with okielite. Eastern PA is very much a northeast state and Philly is practically a city in NJ. Eastern PA does much of its business relations with other eastern cities and states and it shows in the lifestyles and cultures of eastern PA. By contrast, Western PA does much of its business with states from the midwest and south, and it shows in the lifestyles and cultures of western PA, just as it does with eastern PA. This is likely because the river and rail system has always provided better trade routes to the west and south for western PA, and Eastern PA used river and rail systems connected to the eastern seaboard. Like okielite said, PA is very diverse politically and socially.

Pittsburgh's identity crisis has always been because it is "none of the above". Its history is as the titular capital of Appalachia, neither eastern nor midwestern. You could say the middle of the state is more southern than midwestern - it behaves more southernly than say, Central NY.

But unlike their forefathers in mining and manufacturing, the current generations of GenXers and millenials in Pittsburgh would desperately like to be seen as Northeastern. You can see a definitive split in generations as to who misses the BE (young) and who's happy with the ACC (older).

 

[ZooCougar]

Nobody gives a crap about Pitt football.

 

[storrsroars]

Nobody gives a crap about Pitt football.

Cultural anthropology not your thing, eh?

 

[ZooCougar]

Cultural anthropology not your thing, eh?

That flew over my head.