So I'm sure everyone has heard Cincinnati derogatorily referred to as Cincitucky, or Grove City referred to as Grovetucky... but what really surprises me is that this apparently isn't a local phenomenon as I had once thought.  All the way out here in SoCal we have a city in the Inland Empire called Fontana, which people jokingly call Fontucky.  Do you think this is a result of transplants moving out here with anti-Kentucky biases, or do you think the whole country has an anti-Kentucky bias???

It could be a result of Kentuckians moving to Fontana.

Yes, I think the whole country has an anti-Kentucky bias.  Very much so.  Ask a southerner and he'll tell you it's a northern state.  Growing up in Warren we even said Pennsyl-tucky.

So I've sure everyone has heard Cincinnati derogatorily referred to as Cincitucky, or Grove City referred to as Grovetucky... but what really surprises me is that this apparently isn't a local phenomenon as I had once thought.  All the way out here in SoCal we have a city in the Inland Empire called Fontana, which people jokingly call Fontucky.  Do you think this is a result of transplants moving out here with anti-Kentucky biases, or do you think the whole country has an anti-Kentucky bias???

 

Have you been out to the IE?  It's very rural and country out there.

 

I think any small city, in close proximity to a large urban city, can be referred to as "country".  It happens all over.

Up here in Cleveland we have Bruns-tucky (Brunswick)

There was once a running joke on the Jim Rome show (started by a caller) that everywhere outside of NYC and LA is "Kentucky USA"

Have you been out to the IE? It's very rural and country out there.

 

I think any small city, in close proximity to a large urban city, can be referred to as "country". It happens all over.

 

Yeah, I've been out there and know it has some rural areas.  My point of interest though is the use of the -tucky suffix in a region of the country that's nowhere near Kentucky. 

I've heard Hamilton called "Hamil-bama"

Kentucky is the universal stand-in for all things laughably rural.  The word itself is funny sounding.  Incidentally, it originally referred to an especially fertile hunting ground that all eastern tribes could use but none could possess.  So it kinda means "so desirable it has to be shared."

A nickname for rural PA, which is mostly all of the state, is Pennsyl-tucky. Before I moved, people used to tease me for moving there when I was living in New Jersey.

A nickname for rural PA, which is mostly all of the state, is Pennsyl-tucky. Before I moved, people used to tease me when I was living in New Jersey.

 

Well NJ does have it's own "smell" so I they had reason to tease you!

Yeah, basically Anything Bum*uck/Country/Exurban/Rural = Kentucky.  For example, Taylortucky in the Detroit area (Downriver) was mostly Appalachian migrants working at the factories.

A nickname for rural PA, which is mostly all of the state, is Pennsyl-tucky. Before I moved, people used to tease me when I was living in New Jersey.

 

Reminds me of the old joke:

 

Q: How do you get from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia?

A: Through Alabama.

The Cincitucky name is pretty natural given the location, but I'm really surprised someone in Calfornia would be adding "tucky". That just doesn't make sense. I guess the hate spreads further than I thought.

 

That's exactly what ran through my mind.  Cincitucky... well that makes sense... but Fontucky???  It kinda makes me feel sorry for non-redneck people who leave Kentucky for other places.  Of course, being in California from Ohio, Ohio State is always the first thing that comes up.  Beyond that, people are clueless.

The Cincitucky name is pretty natural given the location, but I'm really surprised someone in Calfornia would be adding "tucky". That just doesn't make sense. I guess the hate spreads further than I thought.

 

That's exactly what ran through my mind.  Cincitucky... well that makes sense... but Fontucky???

 

LASam.  I think the west coast uses "bama" more than "tucky".  I've heard people there refer to others as "bama".

It kinda makes me feel sorry for non-redneck people who leave Kentucky for other places.

 

...Or non-redneck people who still live in Kentucky.

As a current Kentucky resident you have to take all of this with a grain of salt.

 

The 'tucky' people like to make fun of is the parts of Kentucky outside of the 'Golden Triangle' (yes, this is a real term, never heard of it before I moved here).  The area between Lexington, Louisville and NKY is as wealthy as anywhere else in the country (well, not the coasts, but you get what I mean). 

 

People are going to think what they want, no helping that.

I was hoping this was going to be a Kentucky typography thread.

As a current Kentucky resident you have to take all of this with a grain of salt.

 

The 'tucky' people like to make fun of is the parts of Kentucky outside of the 'Golden Triangle' (yes, this is a real term, never heard of it before I moved here).  The area between Lexington, Louisville and NKY is as wealthy as anywhere else in the country (well, not the coasts, but you get what I mean). 

 

People are going to think what they want, no helping that.

 

 

MTS, I'd kindly like to ask you to take down those pictures of my kinfolk!

 

 

MTS, I'd kindly like to ask you to take down those pictures of my kinfolk!

 

 

 

oh darn I was just going to post this recent picture of your wife cousin neice sister.

 

 

 

oh darn I was just going to post this recent picture of your wife cousin neice sister.

 

 

D.) All of the above

I've heard Hamilton called "Hamil-bama"

 

I've always heard it called Hamil-tucky. (And that's from most Hamilton residents that i know.)    Haha, That's a first I've ever heard of a Bama reference to Hamilton.

Ypsitucky, what Ann Arbornites call Ypsilanti.  Seriously, the differences between these two cities is vast.

Even in Wilmington... as rural as it gets, we call Blanchester Blantucky

Yes, and thank god we don't!

When I lived in SoCal we had strange names for just about every city...but never heard of Fontucky.  I like it.  Here in Northern California, usually just saying the name of the town brings shudders enough.  Only a few nicknames, like Bezerkely, South City, the City, Boringame (for Burlingame).

 

In SoCal there is a whole roster of names: Labeena Gooch, Newport Bitch, Huntington Bleach, Garbage Grove, and the list goes on.  My favorite was always Beventry Hills for Beverly Hills. None is meant with any kindness...of course.

I had no idea Cali had all of these nicknames either ... lol

Fontana was the birthplace of the Hells Angels. It was also a steel town.  The Kaiser corporation built a big steel mill complex there during WWII, and it apparently drew steelworkers from back east.  Originally it was a development of large lot ranchettes, maybe a bit like, oh, parts of Northridge, here in Dayton. There was a lot of this kind of development around Sacramento, too.

 

When I lived in SoCal we had strange names for just about every city..

 

They had a similar thing going in NorCal.  Nevada City = Nirvana Silly.  Sacramento = Sacratomato or Sacramemento.  Mount Tamalpais = Mount Tamale Pie.  Vacaville = Cow Town.  And so forth.

 

 

 

 

Fontana was the birthplace of the Hells Angels. It was also a steel town. The Kaiser corporation built a big steel mill complex there during WWII, and it apparently drew steelworkers from back east.

 

The site of that steel mill is now NASCAR's California Speedway.

NASCAR?  Well, there you go....

I forgot about the Valley...Sack o' Tomatoes. Oakland is called Oaktown pretty often too.  We bastardize all the Spanish names, just like Southern California, so anything goes with those pronunciations.  Towns like Fresno and Bakersfield are so bad they don't need nicknames.

 

We don't have an ....tucky though.  At least not that I've heard.  In SF we have a neighborhood called "Dogpatch".  Probably for the same reason.

Here we have Hagertucky (Hagerstown) & Fredneck (Frederick)

grove city and brunswick make the most sense as -tuckies since they are both SW burbs along 71, on the way to kentucky.

 

taylor also, along 75 on the way to kentucky from detroit.

Don't forget about Ridgetucky (North Ridgeville).