heyzeus wrote:
- presence of hoosiers
- frequency of seeing confederate flag decals on backs of pickup trucks (south county only)
- remaining signs of segregation.
I have seen all three of these in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the first one.... well, there are hoosiers in just about every single state. Think about the propensity of militias and stuff in the West.
StL Dan wrote:I've never even considered StL to be a southern city.
It's got Midwest written all over it.
Plus, we don't talk funny in StL.
Highway farty?
Only old people from here call it that.
I have never once unintentionally referred to 40 as "Highway Farty".
I'm guess I'm old, because when I lived there in my 20's people my age called it Highway farty. Bob Horner was Bob Harner.
You do something funny with your o's.
You might be on to something there, but, if the only thing St Louisans do funny with their speech is pronouncing their "O's" funny, then we definitely aren't Southern.
heyzeus wrote:
- presence of hoosiers
- frequency of seeing confederate flag decals on backs of pickup trucks (south county only)
- remaining signs of segregation.
I have seen all three of these in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the first one.... well, there are hoosiers in just about every single state. Think about the propensity of militias and stuff in the West.
The usage of "hoosier" is very unique to St. Louis. I've never heard of anyone call anyone else a hoosier outside of St. Louis.
Sterotypical St. Louisan when I lived there in the 80's:
Long hair, black Trans Am with a little bit of rust and two KSHE bumper stickers, flying down highway farty passing all of those hoosiers in the way to get the Imo's buffet before it closed.
heyzeus wrote:
- presence of hoosiers
- frequency of seeing confederate flag decals on backs of pickup trucks (south county only)
- remaining signs of segregation.
I have seen all three of these in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the first one.... well, there are hoosiers in just about every single state. Think about the propensity of militias and stuff in the West.
The usage of "hoosier" is very unique to St. Louis. I've never heard of anyone call anyone else a hoosier outside of St. Louis.
Very true.... but a hoosier by any other name is still a hoosier (that's Shakespeare, right?). Just because they call them something else other places, they're still the same thing.
jim wrote:Sterotypical St. Louisan when I lived there in the 80's:
Long hair, black Trans Am with a little bit of rust and two KSHE bumper stickers, flying down highway farty passing all of those hoosiers in the way to get the Imo's buffet before it closed.
StL Dan wrote:I've never even considered StL to be a southern city.
It's got Midwest written all over it.
Plus, we don't talk funny in StL.
Highway farty?
Only old people from here call it that.
I have never once unintentionally referred to 40 as "Highway Farty".
I'm guess I'm old, because when I lived there in my 20's people my age called it Highway farty. Bob Horner was Bob Harner.
You do something funny with your o's.
You might be on to something there, but, if the only thing St Louisans do funny with their speech is pronouncing their "O's" funny, then we definitely aren't Southern.
Ya'll should know that.
In Chicago it's the a's. Car is pronounced with the a sound as in "cat".
Where I grew up, we pronounced both the o's and the a's correctly, thus no accent.
jim wrote:Long hair, black Trans Am with a little bit of rust and two KSHE bumper stickers, flying down highway farty passing all of those hoosiers in the way to get the Imo's buffet before it closed.
That's how I fondly remember my high school years in Ladue. Class of 2001 represent.
Seriously though, there is a difference between country/hick/hoosier (that you find universally the farther away you get from large cities) and southern. I think some of you people are confusing the two.
StL Dan wrote:I've never even considered StL to be a southern city.
It's got Midwest written all over it.
Plus, we don't talk funny in StL.
Highway farty?
I've lived in St. Louis for almost 25 years, and I've never heard anyone in or from St. Louis that says "Highway Farty". Dead serious. I don't know where that came from.
All I ever saw it on was an Imo's pizza commercial.
Even my mother, who's originally from Arkansas and thus often pronounces window "windah" and sundae "sundah", doesn't say "highway farty".
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