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"Pennsyltucky" is a slang portmanteau to refer to the rural and exurban part of the state of Pennsylvania outside the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, more specifically applied to the mountainous central region.
[edit]Explanation
At times the term is used to describe all of Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The word is a portmanteau constructed from "Pennsylvania" and "Kentucky", implying a similarity between the rural parts of the two states. It can be used in either a pejorative or an affectionate sense.
This term is interchangeable with the slang term "The T", used primarily in political circles (e.g., "Winning the T"), because of the shape of the area of Pennsylvania when excluding Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. "The T" is considered politically correct over "Pennsyltucky" when referring to potential voters.
Philadelphia in the southeast corner and Pittsburgh in the southwest corner are urban manufacturing centers, with the "t-shaped" remainder of the state being much more rural; this dichotomy affects state politics as well as the state economy.[1] Exceptions include such smaller metropolitan areas as Allentown.[citation needed]
[edit]History
The term Pennsyltucky can be traced back over a century.[2] Many of the earlier uses appear to be humorous references to a fictitious state. For example, Pennsyltucky is the name of the ship in the 1942 Popeye cartoon "Baby Wants a Bottleship".[3] By the 1970s, the term clearly referred to rural Pennsylvania, as evidenced by country music star Jeannie Seely's 1972 single, "A Farm in Pennsyltucky" about her childhood home in northwestern Pennsylvania.[4] Also in 1972, Richard Elman writes in his semi-autobiographical Fredi & Shirl & The Kids that the character Fredi refers to all of Appalachia as Pennsyltucky.[5]
The modern popularization of the term, however, is commonly associated with Democratic political consultant James Carville, famed for his work on the victorious campaigns of Robert Casey, Sr. of Pennsylvania in 1986 and Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992.[6][7] Carville's original statement, however, did not refer to Pennsyltucky at all. In 1992 he said:
“ Between Paoli and Penn Hills, Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks. They didn't film "The Deer Hunter" there for nothing -- the state has the second-highest concentration of NRA members, behind Texas.[8][9] ”
Interesting, I appreciate that.
Archie should i join the NRA?
To answer, I don't talk with them much about it. Actually I don't talk with them much at all. They see me as "City Boy". And that is not a compliment.
Just because they cannot close it is not my problem; they had a choice - fuck or walk. They walked.
