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Originally Posted by CVG
Much like the person earlier talking about there being 2 Midwests, there are also 2 Souths. The Deep South which KY and TN are not (outside of the Memphis region) - and I guess what you would call the Upper South. Once you hit Birmingham/Atlanta and go south it has always felt different to me that the areas north.
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I always looked at things this way too. Kind of how the Tri State region and New England are both the very definitions of “Northeast” yet are still distinct from one-another.
But at the end of the day, about 25% of both Tennessee’s and Kentucky’s populations in 1860 were enslaved blacks. That pretty much closes the case on whether TN or KY are Southern or not.