Apparently, south/east Kentucky is known as the "distress zone" of the U.S...poverty is most abundant there. Kentucky has the most amount of smokers percentage wise. It's the home of fried chicken, horses, tobacco, bourbon, bluegrass music and many other things. It is part of the bible belt. Has the largest flea market in the U.S. It's total population is 4,041,769 compared to Georgia's 9,363,94. And, demographics show that it has the highest percentage of "white" people than any other state....I don't really know why that is though. And most of the state is rural..also, if you go to get married they ask you if you are cousins. They actually had to pass a law against it.....does that mean that it happened a few times?
Those are a few statistics......then, you have the people! lol, but I love it here anyway...
2007-01-13 16:06:14 · 8 answers · asked by Danielle 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Oh, and the Hatfield and McCoy feud took place there to....lol
2007-01-13 16:08:49 · update #1
Lets see what else we can add to that list. Most people own a gun (even my granny owns one). It's easy to find moonshine there, it is Daniel Boone country, you see more trucks than cars, even in downtown there are deer.......it is great here though. The people are true characters and (in general) will bend over backwards to help you.
Edit: Towanda....they didn't pass that law everywhere. In California it is legal to marry your first cousins...
2007-01-13 16:12:18 · answer #1 · answered by Led*Zep*Babe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Except for the Canadian national anthem, there is no such thing. If some critic thinks they can tell Canadians which artists music is the definitive Canadian sound then they are full of crap. Music doesn't have a nationality - an artist may be born here but that isn't going to mean their music is automatically representative. It doesn't define what they choose to play or even their style. Perhaps they may be described in a very simplistic way as belonging to a "genre", but this is really a poor way to describe any art. Perhaps more significantly it is a very disrespectful way to dismiss all of an artist's work that reaches outside of that limited definition. Only someone who has no more musical appreciation than the dollar value of a CD at the cash register would be so shallow as to think that music or even artists can be defined with nothing more than a flag that is shared by millions of other people. Each person in a country is unique. Claiming anyone or their art is the definitive "Canadian" sound would also completely insult all the other Canadian artists that you didn't mention. They ALL deserve the title... Picking one out just tells us everything about the personal tastes, opinions and prejudices of a critic but it says nothing about the vast scope of what Canadian music is really like.
2016-05-23 23:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They passed that law everywhere in the USA. It wasn't just in Kentucky that close relatives married close relatives. It has happened all through history much to the distress of the human race. I got a kick of of reading Don Juan and Byron talks about the Moors invading Spain and saved the royal family from being blithering idiots or more nicely put, the need for fresh DNA. Kentucky is a beautiful state. I've driven thru several times in the past. It seems the southern states do have a different mentality and live a different type of life. I don't know why it is but Byron also speaks about people who live in warmer places and their taste for a bit of "decadence", not poverty. Who knows?
2007-01-13 16:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of this state is rural and we all live below the proverty level. But there are some good point about KY, we have more lakes than any other state, the Ky derby is here, we have bluegrass and beautiful horses and wildlife. Most of us do have guns I have 4. So everything here is not bad. I am sure that cousins marry in other states besides just here. If this is redneck than I am proud to be a redneck and I didn't marry my cousin. And I have very proud to be a KY Hillbilly.
2007-01-13 16:19:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No disrespect, but it sounds like maybe you need to go tour some other parts of the US. There are plenty of other places in the US that have the same things as where you're from, and many wouldnt refer to it as redneck.
2007-01-13 16:27:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No that's not redneck that's hillbilly.....Redneck is south Alabama and south Georgia, South Carolina, and of course some more places deep south Trucks, trucker baseball caps, skol. chewing tobaco, and tons of hairspray and puffy hairdos..........now the last time I read the Mexicans were given the white population a run in Atlanta
2007-01-13 16:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like God's country to me.
2007-01-13 16:28:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
being a citizen of Alabama, I would have to say yes
2007-01-13 17:07:46 · answer #8 · answered by ericaofgordon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋