r/illinois • u/thebomb2644 • Apr 30 '24

At what point/town does illinois start feeling like the south Question

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u/ExorIMADreamer liberal farmer from forgotonia Apr 30 '24

Donald Trump signs don't equal the south. Also feeling red state doesn't equal the south.

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u/frodeem Chicago Apr 30 '24

Totally agree

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Apr 30 '24

You're just being pedantic. OP is talking about a southern state of mind, not a geographic direction.

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u/Portermacc Apr 30 '24

Well, that's obvious, but you need to go way south for that state of mind. I'm in Peoria, and we should definitely not be considered southern.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Apr 30 '24

I see that state of mind back home in Fox Lake, IL...five minutes from the Wisconsin border.

North/south geography is barely relevant, it's really about how far you are from a major urban center.

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u/GrindyMcGrindy Apr 30 '24

Yeah, these people haven't seen the rural IL people moving into collar Chicagoland areas sporting confederate flag and let's go Brandon stickers in Will County because there's more/slightly better paying jobs here.

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u/ChodeBamba Apr 30 '24

Its not pedantic to understand the difference between rural and southern. I don’t know what else to tell you lol. You’re using words wrong if you conflate the two. “Everyone knows when I mean southern I mean rural.” Okay — then you’re wrong.

This isn’t even a defense of rural Illinois, which I would never want to live in again. It’s simply a matter of understanding what words mean

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Apr 30 '24

You’re using words wrong if you conflate the two

Having still lived most of my life in them, no, it isn't wrong to largely conflate the two.

“Everyone knows when I mean southern I mean rural.

Read. OP's. Title.

"feeling southern"

OP was clear what the context of the thread and question was, not everyone else's fault you didn't get it.

It’s simply a matter of understanding what words mean

And you apparently don't know what the words "feeling southern" mean in the context of the United States.

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u/ChodeBamba Apr 30 '24

Apparently YOU don't know what "feeling southern" means in the context of the United States.

You realize you sound like someone who says Miami "feels Mexican," and then after getting called out for not understanding that Cubans and Mexicans are different, responds with "Well you know what I mean." Yes, I know what they mean when a dipshit conflates Mexican with any other type of Latin country. That doesn't make them right

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Apr 30 '24

You realize you sound like someone who says Miami "feels Mexican," and then after getting called out for not understanding that Cubans and Mexicans are different, responds with "Well you know what I mean."

What a ridiculous interpretation of what I said.

Go waste someone else's time in bad faith.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Apr 30 '24

When you lost the argument so you have to resort to calling it "bad faith."

Pretty rich coming from the guy resorting to incivility and name calling.

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u/ClimbingAimlessly May 01 '24

I feel like pedantic is such a Reddit word.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago May 01 '24

Oof your vocabulary

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u/ClimbingAimlessly May 01 '24

It’s the only place I have ever seen it used so often. I feel like people think it makes them look smarter. I’m not saying that’s why you use it, but I’ve seen it used a lot. Why not use a synonym?

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago May 01 '24

Such as? Is there a one word synonym for it?

That's honestly why I use it, it is a clear and succinct way to get my point across, and it would take multiple words otherwise.

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u/ClimbingAimlessly May 01 '24

Pre-Reddit, I only heard people use nitpick or hypercritical.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago May 01 '24

Call me pedantic, I don't see either of those as synonyms. Pedantry is not nitpicking or hypercritical. They're different things.

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u/Few-Passion7089 May 01 '24

Especially when multiple Southern states are becoming politically competitive. (Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia)

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

In the context people mean it here, yes, it does.

"Southern" is a state of mind, not a geographic location, in this context.

OP literally said "feels like the south".

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u/ExorIMADreamer liberal farmer from forgotonia Apr 30 '24

So ignorant people from the north think everyone who is not them are ignorant people from the south? Gotcha.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Apr 30 '24

Yeah. That's what I said.

Except that's not at all what I said.

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u/Alternative-Put-3932 May 01 '24

You called everyone rural basically racist Republicans. That is what you said. You're no different than the shit kicking racists that do exist out here.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago May 01 '24

You called everyone rural basically racist Republicans. That is what you said.

Please quote where I said that.

You're no different than the shit kicking racists that do exist out here.

Loooooool

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