re: Cincinnati - Midwestern of Southern City?

We don’t cotton to devil worship in the South, so no, Cincy ain’t Southern.

I’ve been there many times. Ohio people think of Cincy as the South.

Kentucky people think of the boarder towns as North.

Even the white people in Philly segregate themselves based on ethnicity.

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If we went by the Mason Dixon line, Washington DC would be a southern city.

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From everything I can gather, DC probably did feel more like a Southern city than anything else prior to WWII.

Gold star is more popular up here where I'm at. Skyline doesn't really compare.

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Ohio people think of Cincy as the South.

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I lived in Ohio for 15 years plus have about 50 family members there and never ever once heard anything about cincy being the south or southern in aspects of culture only geography.

Some of the comments in this thread are hilarious

Yeah skyline gets all the publicity. I mean it's not bad but I'm just a gold star guy.

Trashy.

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I used to work for a company HQ’d in Cincinnati. People there certainly freaked out about snow similar to a southern city.

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I'll give Cincy a little bit of a pass on this one. The city is one of the most rugged larger cities in the country (up there with Pittsburgh, Seattle, and San Francisco) within its neighborhoods. Snow and ice are relatively a lot more dangerous in a place like that.

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There is something different about Cincinnati though. More like Louisville than Columbus or Cleveland in terms of culture.

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The historical patterns of immigration for Cincinnati and most of the lower Ohio River Valley for that matter are way different than for the rest of the Midwest, and I think this is why it feels a good bit different. That part of the country was (and still is, to a very large degree) heavily German Catholic along with a lot of Protestant Scotch-Irish migration from nearby Appalachian areas (eastern Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, western Virginia, southeast Ohio, etc.).

Most of the rest of the Midwest (including places like Cleveland) had/has a much larger Eastern European, Irish, Italian, and Jewish influence. The cultural gap between, say, South Bend, IN and Cincinnati, OH is fairly large. Different accents and slang, different food, different outlook on life.

Northern city