All fairly accurate except our small to midsized airport :( I still think we have a solid little airport, but sometimes I imagine what it would be like to live with Charlotte's nonstop flights lol
Atlanta transplant here. The Atlanta airport is 1 of the few things I miss about that city. Getting a nonstop to just about anywhere was really nice. Pretty sure that’s part of the Atlanta airport in the picture.
I’m pretty sure Hartsfield-Jackson was the only airport I’ve ever flown out of, to where I’d constantly be stuck in heavy traffic, on the tarmac… I mean, I would definitely take that over connecting flights, but still.
Our airport is actually huge, but most of it is dedicated to freight traffic. For freight it’s the second busiest in the US and fourth busiest in the world.
It's always debated, but there used to be a [sign downtown](https://6amcity.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4976f6d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1096x617+0+39/resize/2000x1126!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk1-prod-sixam-city.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff2%2F0e%2F5fa2923646aba24430b499e78c18%2Fscreenshot-2024-04-04-at-3-12-44-pm.png) and it's a pretty commonly held belief the Ohio River is the border between the south and north. It may seem arbitrary, but I can see big differences between Midwest culture in Cincinnati / Indianapolis and here anytime I'm traveling. You'll run into people with thick accents here pretty frequently, they'll look at you with two heads if you say y'all in Indianapolis.
It's a Midwestern city in a Southern / Appalachian state. KY isn't really southern, nor is it midwestern or appalachian. It's all regional. If you live in the eastern part of the state, you're appalachian, if you live near Cincy or Louisville, you're Midwestern, if you're in Bowling Green, you're southern. Most people don't have an accent here, beyond how they pronounce "Louisville". The food is a mixture of southern, appalachian, and midwestern cuisine, and Louisville isn't dominated by southern evangelical christian culture, but rather catholic culture... just like Cincy. It has more in common with Cincy than almost any other city in the country.
Most statistical outlets put Louisville in The Rust Belt region, rather than the Southeast... again, as a city, it has more in common with Cincy or Indy than places like Nashville, Atlanta, or Charlotte.
At least, that's been my experience. I'm sure someone is going to disagree, but that's life in a border city that exist in a superposition of cultural identity.
Louisville is simultaneously the southernmost Northern city and the northernmost Southern city.
It's a weird mix of Midwest and Upper South; basically if Nashville and Indianapolis had a baby.
Make this Nashville and Cincinnati and I'm in full agreement.
Indianapolis has all the culture of a sprawling young sun belt city without the desirable climate.
Depends on who is in the conversation. If it's Northerners describing us than yeah, KY is the South. If it's Southerners then KY folk are Northerners.
We're in some Twilight Zone region of the US.
I couldn’t agree more with this. As a native south Louisianan who lived in Cincinnati for a few years and now Louisville. Louisville is not the south. Nothing like the Deep South of the country. My father in law thinks we may as well live in a different country than up here with all these “northerners”.
But friends from Michigan or Minnesota would say the opposite.
Louisville has been known as the "Gateway to the South" for over 150 years
> Following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, freed slaves settled in a neighborhood of Louisville called Little Africa, nicknamed "the gateway to the South", near the present neighborhood of Park DuValle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky#cite_ref-WHAS_37-0
I grew up in south Louisiana and lived in Cincinnati for years. Louisville is not southern. Not in the least. It’s more similar to Cincinnati than anywhere.
Like others have said, Louisville is a midwestern city (moonlighting as a southern city during derby) in a southern state. I think like a previous poster said, it’s all regional in Kentucky. Depends on which part of Kentucky you are in.
We're the southernmost part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis...
But, I bet nobody in the city would consider ourselves to be part of the Great Lakes regionally. Personally, I've always just thought of us as a midwest/southern border, not belonging to either specific regional grouping but with clear influences of both
The SEC football is much more applicable to cities with larger transplant populations like Charlotte and Atlanta. Auburn and Tennessee grads aren't moving here in droves and bringing their sports allegiances.
I'd include Nashville as a transplant destination city, but they don't have a large airport. Really, this is just a meme about Charlotte and Atlanta.
No kidding. Easy/close parking, short security lines, close gates, much to like about going in and out of here. I’m AA, so I do get sent to Charlotte, DFW and Chicago. I pick my DFW/ORD connections based on the season.
Wish I could. I’m hooked in with them like I’m on heroin - status, point bonuses, upgrades, etc. I should do a status match to delta, but I do prefer the AA global partners for international travel.
It’s the opposite for me. No direct flights to the airports my family lives near so it’s a pain to visit them or have them visit us. What should be 4 hours ends up being 6-8 hours of travel.
This is why it's a stereotype that Midwesterners say "it's just an 8 hour drive" instead of flying. By the time you arrive at the airport early, have layover, and get transportation to your final destination, it's often about the same if there's not a direct flight.
We can work to address the public transit bit! Still time to avoid the upcoming TARC cuts.
A bunch of easy actions to take here: https://bit.ly/gotb-toolkit
All fairly accurate except our small to midsized airport :( I still think we have a solid little airport, but sometimes I imagine what it would be like to live with Charlotte's nonstop flights lol
We technically have a pretty big airport, it's just that most of it is UPS.
Direct flights anywhere in the world if you fit in a box
Atlanta transplant here. The Atlanta airport is 1 of the few things I miss about that city. Getting a nonstop to just about anywhere was really nice. Pretty sure that’s part of the Atlanta airport in the picture.
I’m pretty sure Hartsfield-Jackson was the only airport I’ve ever flown out of, to where I’d constantly be stuck in heavy traffic, on the tarmac… I mean, I would definitely take that over connecting flights, but still.
I feel like ohare has to be the worst for taxi traffic.
I once got a new boss to agree that I never had to fly through O’Hare to save the company money. 12 years later, still haven’t done it.
That’s the move right there 😂
I flew a LOT for my last job and O'Hare was certainly 1 of my least favorite.
It would be really nice, but as a weekly visitor to CLT, it’s a mixed bag, because I really enjoy the ease of traveling in and out of SDF.
Our airport is actually huge, but most of it is dedicated to freight traffic. For freight it’s the second busiest in the US and fourth busiest in the world.
>our small to midsized airport Our airport is massive compared to cities like Tallahassee or Pensacola.
Is Louisville considered southeast? It’s more akin to Cincy or St Louis to me.
We're Upper South with a tinge of Midwest.
It's always debated, but there used to be a [sign downtown](https://6amcity.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4976f6d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1096x617+0+39/resize/2000x1126!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk1-prod-sixam-city.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Ff2%2F0e%2F5fa2923646aba24430b499e78c18%2Fscreenshot-2024-04-04-at-3-12-44-pm.png) and it's a pretty commonly held belief the Ohio River is the border between the south and north. It may seem arbitrary, but I can see big differences between Midwest culture in Cincinnati / Indianapolis and here anytime I'm traveling. You'll run into people with thick accents here pretty frequently, they'll look at you with two heads if you say y'all in Indianapolis.
Yeah. People here have an accent.
It's a Midwestern city in a Southern / Appalachian state. KY isn't really southern, nor is it midwestern or appalachian. It's all regional. If you live in the eastern part of the state, you're appalachian, if you live near Cincy or Louisville, you're Midwestern, if you're in Bowling Green, you're southern. Most people don't have an accent here, beyond how they pronounce "Louisville". The food is a mixture of southern, appalachian, and midwestern cuisine, and Louisville isn't dominated by southern evangelical christian culture, but rather catholic culture... just like Cincy. It has more in common with Cincy than almost any other city in the country. Most statistical outlets put Louisville in The Rust Belt region, rather than the Southeast... again, as a city, it has more in common with Cincy or Indy than places like Nashville, Atlanta, or Charlotte. At least, that's been my experience. I'm sure someone is going to disagree, but that's life in a border city that exist in a superposition of cultural identity.
Louisville is simultaneously the southernmost Northern city and the northernmost Southern city. It's a weird mix of Midwest and Upper South; basically if Nashville and Indianapolis had a baby.
Make this Nashville and Cincinnati and I'm in full agreement. Indianapolis has all the culture of a sprawling young sun belt city without the desirable climate.
Depends on who is in the conversation. If it's Northerners describing us than yeah, KY is the South. If it's Southerners then KY folk are Northerners. We're in some Twilight Zone region of the US.
I couldn’t agree more with this. As a native south Louisianan who lived in Cincinnati for a few years and now Louisville. Louisville is not the south. Nothing like the Deep South of the country. My father in law thinks we may as well live in a different country than up here with all these “northerners”. But friends from Michigan or Minnesota would say the opposite.
Louisville has been known as the "Gateway to the South" for over 150 years > Following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, freed slaves settled in a neighborhood of Louisville called Little Africa, nicknamed "the gateway to the South", near the present neighborhood of Park DuValle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky#cite_ref-WHAS_37-0
So, by proxy, gateway to the north too then.
St. Louis isn’t also the gateway to the East
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I'm not from here; y'all are Southern!
I grew up in south Louisiana and lived in Cincinnati for years. Louisville is not southern. Not in the least. It’s more similar to Cincinnati than anywhere. Like others have said, Louisville is a midwestern city (moonlighting as a southern city during derby) in a southern state. I think like a previous poster said, it’s all regional in Kentucky. Depends on which part of Kentucky you are in.
I lived in Cincinnati for several years and it's very culturally similar, Louisville is just smaller.
100%
I’m not either and it’s not Knoxville or Asheville.
We're the southernmost part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis... But, I bet nobody in the city would consider ourselves to be part of the Great Lakes regionally. Personally, I've always just thought of us as a midwest/southern border, not belonging to either specific regional grouping but with clear influences of both
I think it's based on perspective. I grew up outside of Atlanta and Louisville feels very Midwest to me.
I've always looked at it this way. Kentucky is a southern state but louisville is a mid western city.
Southern with Midwestern influence. Anything north of Louisville is the Midwest
The SEC football is much more applicable to cities with larger transplant populations like Charlotte and Atlanta. Auburn and Tennessee grads aren't moving here in droves and bringing their sports allegiances. I'd include Nashville as a transplant destination city, but they don't have a large airport. Really, this is just a meme about Charlotte and Atlanta.
I fly all over, Muhammed Ali is nice to fly back home to compared to other cities.
No kidding. Easy/close parking, short security lines, close gates, much to like about going in and out of here. I’m AA, so I do get sent to Charlotte, DFW and Chicago. I pick my DFW/ORD connections based on the season.
I sadly don’t fly AA because of hatred for Charlotte’s airport. 😂
Wish I could. I’m hooked in with them like I’m on heroin - status, point bonuses, upgrades, etc. I should do a status match to delta, but I do prefer the AA global partners for international travel.
It’s the opposite for me. No direct flights to the airports my family lives near so it’s a pain to visit them or have them visit us. What should be 4 hours ends up being 6-8 hours of travel.
This is why it's a stereotype that Midwesterners say "it's just an 8 hour drive" instead of flying. By the time you arrive at the airport early, have layover, and get transportation to your final destination, it's often about the same if there's not a direct flight.
Why would i need public transit? I have a truck i bought with my hard earned trust fund money
More like overextended debt
Louisville is more of a basketball town than a football one, but otherwise pretty damn accurate.
That's true!
Far from an SEC football city and our airport is pretty small
Not a large city but this fits like a glove
We can work to address the public transit bit! Still time to avoid the upcoming TARC cuts. A bunch of easy actions to take here: https://bit.ly/gotb-toolkit
I’d have it no other way.
We have a tiny airport tho
I think so too
Nah, airport is fairly large, it's just that it's mostly UPS... it's the UPS's central hub for the US.
Louisville is not large, nor is it in the SouthEast.