American Geography 300. (Were the south starts and ends)

OK so as i said before, I have worked at Disney World. Which is in Florida, Which is in the south... kind of. And i am from Kentucky which is in the South..... Well... Ill come back to that.

This is the thing, wile working at Disney i would have this conversation allot.

Guest from a Northern state. "Can you help me."
Me: "Of coarse sir or ma'am"
Guest: "Thank you, So were are you from?" (The question is brought on by my Accent, which by the way is not that bad)
Me: "I'm from Kentucky."

At this point one of two things would happen.

#1. "O, so you are from the south."
#2. "O, So your accustomed to this Southern Heat."

Now this is my Question, When did Kentucky Become part of the south? Really i mean it WHEN! DID I MISS THE MEMO!

OK so there are three ways to look at this.
Geographically.
Historically.
Culturally.

So first.
Geographically.
OK so If you look at America and cut it into top / bottom. Kentucky Might be in the south or north, or cut in half. We are more in the middle, but to the same right, most people wouldn't say that Virginia was in the South would they? (Some would)
And you would never Say California was a Southern state? (Most of it is by this right) So it would be safe to say that Kentucky was a heart land state, or a Mid-Eastern State.

Historically.
OK so the this is going to go to the Civil war.
Lets take note here, Virginia was part of the south. But most people don't think its in the "South" West Virginia was part of the north. And most people would say it is in the south.
Kentucky, Was At first Neutral, Why? Because we had a pro-southern Governor and Pro-Union House and Senate. So we were Neutral until the South decided to Violate our Neutrality, then we joined THE UNION! That's right, Kentucky was a blue state in the Civil war. SUCK ON IT YOU LOSSER'S DOWN SOUTH!

Culturally.
OK so here is were Kentucky and West Virginia get it.
Most people think of Ky and WV are southern states for two reasons.
#1. We have Accents.
#2. We are pore.
That it people, that's why, its OK to say it.
People in both states have a Appalachian Accent, not a southern Accent. Can't tell the Difference, not my problem i can't tell the difference between a new york and road island accent, all i know is you people nee to learn to say ASK not Ax.


And on that same note.
From a Cultural point Florida is NOT a southern state.
No one gives a shit about the Rebel flag in Florida. This is mostly because of the strong Latino and Spanish. (Not to be confused for one another) Influences in the state.
The Same can be said for Texas to a lesser extent, but both were in the Civil War as part of the south.


In short.
NO i am not from the south. I'm from Kentucky.
Some people in Kentucky By the Way, Did fight on the Southern side in the War and some of them still want to fly the Rebel Flag.
And to them i would say this.


HAHAHAHAHAHAH! YOU LOST!
Go cry into your big red gay safety blanket you Emo Face.

I live in a white ghetto. (Greetings from clay county Kentucky )

OK so first off i want to give you a geography lesson.
I live in the State of Kentucky, which is the 4th poorest state in the United States.
I live in Clay County Kentucky, Which is the poorest county in the state of Kentucky.
The Per Capita Income for clay country is $9,716. (As of 2000 census) Making it the 18th poorest county in the nation. And the poorest "white" County in the United States, Only being beaten out by country comprised mainly of Swamps and Desert in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
And Most notably 10 of the country's that beat out Clay County are Native American Reservations.

So i am by no means saying that people in Clay County are the poorest people in the world.
Simply this. $9'716 per person is about he same (About $10 less) then what people make in Brazil.
My county is a third world nation. Or if i wanted to use Current Policitcal Language i live in a developing county located inside the borders of a developed county.


I can to the epiphany that i lived in a White Ghetto, in the same place i came across almost all of my epiphany's in life. At Disney.

I was in my last apartment, the one i spent the most time at on my 2nd stay with Disney.

The household was comprised of. (I'm only using first names)
Myself. (From Clay County Kentucky)
Jamal. (From Washington D.C.)
"D" (From Chicago Illinois)
Derrik. (From Sweet Water Texas)
Abdulla. (From New York City)
Juan. (From SauPalo Brazil)

So in this house hold we had, Myself, Three African Americans, And two Latino's One from a family that lived in Texas seance before it was Texas, and another from Brazil)

Now even if we had a very mixed household, we all got along fine.
After some remixing on the rooms, putting myself and Jamal in the same room because Im a quite sleeper, and he's a very light sleeper. And putting Juan and Abdulla in the same room, because Juan got up very early for work, and Abdulla got up very early to pray to Mecca.



Now on to Jamal, he had trouble with rooming with Juan early on, because Juan Snores and gets up early. And Jamal is a VERY light sleeper, so much so that i eventually ask him. To which D answered that he had been in "The joint" And was afraid i would shank him in the night. We laughed and then Jamal answered the question. "Because i live in Anacostia" Now i knew what that meant, Anacostia is a WAR ZONE. He explained that on more then one occasion he actully had to dive to the floor because of stray bullets hitting his families house.

When asked why they didn't move away, he answered "Because they can't afford to" He then told us that he was going to college on scholarship, and wanted to get a good job so he could Move his family away from there. Then we started a conversation about high school.

And we both maid a discovery.
Nearly every one that we both went to high school with, was ether dead on in prison. Most of the males. (All of them with my last name) Have been in Jail with the exception of me.

As we kept talking we both came to the conclusion that i live in a white ghetto.
Now there are differences.

Clay county is not a war zone, but there are dangers, if you wander in to the wrong patch of forest, you can be harmed or killed. Something a census worker found out not to long ago.
And for nearly a century the county was run with the same politics that were used in the 1890's.

Two families owning everything, the same family always being major, corrupt judges, voting fraud. Murder, Drugs and corruption.
Wile Jamal's home was more dangerous, he told me he would never live in a place like clay county, we are poorer and less free, until recently we lived in a kind of feudal system.
The family's at the top doling out the wealth and good jobs in the county to family and people who acted as there lap dogs.

The thing is, That clay county, if you Ignore the people could be one of the most beautiful places i have ever been. And if you know the county you can easily stay away from danger. But if you do your almost living apart from the rest of the people.


And just list Jamal's family most people are just to pore to move away.
The only real jobs in the county are state jobs. In particular working at the state pen.
And soon they will be building a Recycling plant that will give jobs to about 300 people.

But again most of the jobs will go to people from the county's around Clay, and people who are in the "Loop" and it comes to my attention that the county's entire economy is built on handling other people's refuse. Human or otherwise.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/census-worker-killed-by-a_n_299725.html
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The link above shows what i mean by, corruption and human waist.