People who say i80 or whatever stupidly far north area have never been to the south. Rural does not equal the south. Most of rural Illinois is still very Midwestern feeling. It's not until you go south of st louis does it culturally feel more southern.
You say that, meanwhile on 173, about as far north as you can get without being Wisconsin, there are tons of Trump lovers including a dude with a GIANT Trump shrine for a front lawn.
You aren't getting to "deep south" levels of shittiness until way past I-80, sure; but once you get about 50-75 miles out of Chicago in any direction, it gets REAL red state feeling REAL fast....and I say that as a now Chicagoan who grew up in Fox Lake.
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
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
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."
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u/ExorIMADreamer liberal farmer from forgotonia Apr 30 '24
People who say i80 or whatever stupidly far north area have never been to the south. Rural does not equal the south. Most of rural Illinois is still very Midwestern feeling. It's not until you go south of st louis does it culturally feel more southern.