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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5327152, member: 71"]
Many decades ago I often had to travel to Jeffersonville Indiana on audits (directly across the Ohio River from Louisville).

In that part of Indiana the locals refer to it as Kentuckyana.  It may not be as south as for example Central Mississippi, but most residents (at least in the 1980's &1990's) call themselves southerners (unless speaking of the Civil War).

They also had a greater concentration of Waffle Houses than any place I've ever visited (I've been on business trips to most of the lower 48 states).

West Virginia is a unique situation.  Southern states view it as a northern state, northeast states view it as southern.  East coast states view it as midwest while traditional midwest states don't consider it as part of the Midwest.

Once on an audit (in North Carolina in the mid 1980's) I ran into a WV native & WVU grad who told me the best description for West Virginians would be Southern Yankees but not to say that to them as they would dislike the Yankee label.  He said they view themselves basically as southerners but place greater importance on the state being part of the Union during the Civil War.
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