Posted on 05/01/2016 7:27:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I recently took a closer look at my family tree than I had before and determined that my great-great-grandfather moved from Davis, Indiana - near Michigan City - to La Cygne, Kansas some time after his last child was born in 1861 He died there in 1886. His son - my great-grandfather - was born in Indiana in 1852 so would have moved with the family as a youth. He died across the border in Adrian, Missouri in 1928.
Years ago, on an episode of “COPS,” they were with the Kansas City Police Department. In the squad room, the sergeant was getting on the patrol officers. Apparently, the brass was getting complaints that the street officers were being disrepectful of the citizens they were encountering. The sergeant said something like “So stop calling people bums, trash, n*****s and Hoosiers.”
Apparently we brought a reputation with us when we migrated to the area.
Everybody seems to like to look down on somebody. Most of my Indiana relatives looked down on “Kentuckians” who seemed to be anyone who had migrated from the South to work in the auto plants.
You heard about the Kentuckian who wanted to move to Indiana? He got on I65 North, and just before he got to the river he saw the sign that said “Indiana Left”
So he turned around and went back home.
LOL!
In southern Indiana you will hear a LOT of Kentucky jokes.
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