The REDNECK CAPITAL of Indiana
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- This area of Indiana has had a reputation of being redneck for many years. In this video I drive around the most redneck pair of towns that reside in the state of Indiana, and I tell you more about them along the way. If you're hoping that this video will show you where you can grab some Mountain Dew when you're in the area... you're out of luck because there's no Mountain Dew in stock in any of the stores in this county.
0:00 - 23:19 Scottsburg
23:19 - 24:42 Austin
24:42 - 28:37 The 2015 Austin HIV outbreak
28:37 - 30:56 Chris's Livability Score
30:56 - 34:18 Final thoughts
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A student does not graduate a school! A student graduates FROM a school! Did you graduate?
@@stanforddeplorable8013 No
to the youtube channel owner= you may want to get some mental health counseling to deal with you hate and anger at Indiana because we refuse to act like New Tork
I live in Scottsburg. I’ve live here for about 5 years now. I moved here from the worse place I believe on the planet Knox County Kentucky. Me and my wife built a house here. I’ve heard the stories. Let me tell this I’m 43 and in my whole life I’ve never met more nicer people. It doesn’t matter where you go, what town you go to your always going to find junkies and drugs that’s just the way it is. By the way My Dad died this year so I moved my mom up here.
My grandmother lived in scottsburg. My cousin is David Campbell. I lived there as well in my late teens and again in my late twenties. Scottsburg has the same problem as Monticello KY , Newcastle, Indiana and alot of towns throughout the US. 😢
Pike County, Kentucky, Mingo County, West Virginia, Logan County
West Virginia,
With respect Sir, Maybe not the worse place on the planet. We have young men singing about KY from WV calling it paradise. ( As they see it. )
Logan Halstead - Dark Black Coal Logan Halstead - Kentucky Sky.
Anyhow, What you said is not a lie. I'm just saying, is all.
I am happy, you have a better life now. Take care and good luck to Ya, as you travel to the second half of your life.
Well...Clay County, Kentucky did not make the above lists!
I drive through Gary indiana, and south side Chicago every day, this looks like paradise to me.
Beware the infection of the Chicago land has spread from its borders out to the rule setting. This is true for every part of the country. Or at least appears to be for the majority. It should have ended up facedown in a sewer I guess in Indiana you can say you might end up facedown in a cornfield for the mortician to come by and pick you up.
I grew up in Gary 😂 this looks way nicer than
Right. Gary Indiana is the shit hole of Indiana.. meet the most amazing people from that town. Also met a lot of crack heads too... Chicago is right next door.. as of July 4th weekend only 38 people were shot and 21 passed away
I grew up in rural Indiana and graduated from high school in 1973. Since then I have lived in 9 other states (yes I lived in Kentucky and even Michigan in the U.P.) and 2 foreign countries. What I have learned there are pretty much two types of people: people from big cities and people who don't live in big cities. After wandering the world and the U.S. for years I find myself once again living in a small rural community in Southwest Missouri, and to be honest I prefer it -- it was kind of like going home to Indiana again. Home is what you make of it.
I'm originally from Illinois and I feel the same way about southern Illinois. Once you get outside of the so called "Chicagoland" area and go further south, everything is pretty much different variations/levels of redneck. I dated a woman who was from the Colombia City/Fort Wayne area and she used to dish all the time about Indiana. Very interesting to hear about the similarities between Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana!
I grew up in Southwest Indiana about 11 miles from the state line with Illinois. And yeah, VERY similar.
Yes it’s very different. No gang shootings every day, no neighborhoods you dare not drive through any time of the day. Yep. Very different.
@@cpd95 having actually driven through Englewood in Chicago and some of those redneck towns, I definitely felt much less safe in the small towns.
aids city lol
I was thinking the same thing! I live in Chester, IL.
A small Midwestern town with not much going for it.
Lived in Scottsburg my whole life. Not at all offended by the video. Said the truth the whole way. Thank you for taking up for us. We are a redkneck area, but not different from other places around us. Found your video informative and entertaining. Seen a few places I've lived and worked. My hometown, for better and worse
Appreciate your vid5
Video, lol. I am a redneck, lmao
I enjoy watching videos like yours where it is just rolling footage through a random town . It's very interesting and entertaining . Thank you. It lets me explore other towns when I can't make it there to see for myself.
Lived here in Austin for most of my 26 years of life, after moving here from Kentucky when I was younger. Honestly, there's not much here. This place has it's fair share of crazy folks, maybe even a few more. But mostly, it's an area full of some of the nicest people you'll meet. Loads of people from this area come out of Hazard, Kentucky and other areas in KY. The hard drugs is the primary issue in this place... Thanks for shedding some light on little old Scott County!!
I was in Hazard in March, 71, and the metropolis of Quicksand ( Off the side road of the side road). We entertained ourselves shoot up the old Plymouth on the bank of the creek there. I got my first gulp of moonshine there. That hit my brain like the hammer/bell at the state fair. Gulp... DING!
I was born in the town of Vincennes, Indiana and grew up in Bicknell, Indiana. Both are in Knox County, located in the South Western part of the state. Vincennes has a lot of history and is located on the Wabash River, while Bicknell is a dying, nearly dead coalming town. I see very little on TH-cam about these towns. In any event, I moved the San Francisco Bay area to work in Silicon Valley and never looked back.
I have a good friend that grew up in Bicknell and went to school at Vincennes University.
I grew up in Indianapolis and my mom and stepdad had a place in scottsburg at one time. It was a nice farmhouse on a beautiful property. I liked it there quite a bit, there's the good and bad everywhere you go! Unfortunately their house burned down and they pretty much lost everything they had at the time.
Thank God no one got hurt. It's still terrible losing your stuff especially family pictures.
Southern Indiana native here. I actually went _to_ Scottsburg for a job back in the early 80s - & it was a good one, too. What a buddy from Indy & I learned right away was 1) that there really wasn’t _anywhere_ that you could eat & drink at the same time & under the same roof, & 2) the trick to cruising around with a cooler & staying out of trouble was to keep _the_ county mounty on duty in front of us where we could see him.
Having learned that much, doing five tens & getting the hell out of town for the weekend turned out to be the thing to do.
NW Indiana native here
I liked this video. Thank you for sharing. 😊❤
Very entertaining video Chris! Thanks for the laughs!!
OMG, what a hilarious video. You descibed every small town in the Midwest. Small town rivalries are incredible. I know all about it. Grew up outside a town of 200 in Iroquois Co, actually called Iroquois, located on the Iroquois River. Original, right. We loved making fun of our neighboring towns. We called Rensselaer, IN Rensaltucky. Your Mountain Dew jokes are 😂😅
Great video. I liked seeing stuff my pappy built in the 70s thats still there. I think it's a good place with nice people. This is my hometown.
Lived in Austin practically my whole life. One of my sisters was affected by the HIV epidemic even. Its not as bad as it's put out to be. There's some really good people here
I bet there are good people. I hope you and your family are able to move forward and are doing ok.
Bro, you made me laugh 😂😂. I think you are awesome. Keep doing what your doing brother!
This is enjoyable 😊. Thank you
Scottsburg looks amazing! Love the historic buildings! ❤
I ran a food truck there for 4 years. I love Scottsburg, it's like someone hit the pause button in 1985. ❤
Thanks for the drive with informative description of Indiana's small towns. Two cups of coffee and didn't spill a drop.
I grew up in Scottsburg. My dad graduated from SHS, my sister and I both graduated from SHS and so did my children. Scottsburg will always be my home and there is a certain amount of pride I have being from Scottsburg. The majority of the people there are good people with small town values. I consider Scottsburg a small farming community where everyone knows you or your family name and there is nothing wrong with that. Just like anything in life, Scottsburg is what you put into it. If you choose to better yourself then you will, if not, well there is always Austin. I moved out of The Burg when my kids graduated and will never live there again but it’s still my home.
You know your way around the area quite well.
Been to the sale barn?
The canning factory?
Scottsburg reservoir?
Nice quite town.
How did you get that nice little details strip at the bottom of the screen that shows what town you are in, what direction you are travelling, etc.?
Just some long and tedious, yet simple video editing.
It is really pretty awesome. It's really cool when you're familiar with the town or city you're visiting.
And why is "W" called double u when it's clearly double v??
I grew up in Seymour. In school, North Vernon was the town we ripped on most. Jennstucky.
Well done! Even though we are fellow Americans this is such an alien world to me. I love seeing parts of the America I know nothing about from the locals.
There's Hazeltucky (Hazel Park), Mi. A friend lives in Warren, off Arsenal Ave., and he told me that.
I'm 70 and lived almost entirely in Southern Indiana. I graduated from Borden and lived my adult life outside of Pekin. I'm shocked at how much you hate Indiana. Especially southern Indiana! With the Knobs and forestry, it's beautiful! The majority of the people I've meant in my 70 years were always kind and welcoming. I've never heard of us being called hilljack or our towns having the "tucky" added to the end of our towns name. Sad, just sad!
Doesn't look any worse than any other small town Midwest.
Not at all
Ha ha, I was born in Washington. My family only lived there for 6 months though. My extended family is from Northern Indiana - Ligonier to be exact which was originally a Jewish settlement. We moved to Michigan when I was 4, and when we would visit Indiana it was always so much more backwards than Michigan. But there was little more freedom though, too. We could still ride in the back of a pickup truck, people could ride without helmets on their motorcycles, and multiple freedoms that Michigan got rid of. It really seemed backwards due to the Amish as well. And a lot more trains. My dad was a retail manager for Danners/3D so that was why we moved around a lot.
We lived in Princeton, Alexandria, Mt Vernon, IL, and then to Midland, MI. We lived in other towns, too.
Oh in Michigan, we call Breckenridge - Breckentucky. Also in Ligonier they used to have Kidds Marshmallow. I had aunts and uncles that worked there. I actually got marshmallows warm right off the line.
I'm hoping you do some rural Ohio towns soon. I live in one and I would like to see your take on them.
I've driven US 30 between Lima and Ft Wayne. There's a huge wind farm setup neat the Indiana border. My boss was from Delphi. Being from Battle "Crick" Mi, now live near Spartanburg Sc, a small town called Inman.
I grew up and lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana my whole life (less 10 years in the US Army) and I've called anything south of Indianapolis.... Kentucky... for the last couple of decades. say the 90's onward... haha I've responded to people from outside of here (for also a couple of decades) that I'm from 'Northern Indiana'... and it is definitely distinctive from southern indiana.
I agree. Northern Indiana feels more blue-collar and rust-belt. There’s still some redneck up there though. Fort Wayne has a strong blue collar history but is doing good for itself in comparison to other Indiana cities that aren’t too far like Marion, Anderson and Muncie.
I've been thru Ft Wayne many times, now I use the east bypass to US 30, on my way to South Carolina from Battle Crick, Mi. Half of Battle Creek is from Tennessee, including my grandparents.
According to a billboard in your video, there was only an eleven minute wait at the local emergency room.
HOW DANGEROUS IS SCOTTSBURG THAT I WILL NEED THIS INFORMATION!
Seriously, do residents drive around planning an emergency route for random bullet wounds?
I just bought a firearm here in NV...several names used here in this town east of Reno ( and the gunshop) is Ferntucky. I have no idea where that name came from here in NV. Now I'm from KY but live in NV. I talked a real estate agent today about a house for sale in Corydon. I talked to a guy with KY property for sale ( just land) right before I talked to the Corydon agent. After listening to you talk about Indiana, I may now have to pass on that house and purchase more acreage in KY and build a fort with canons all the way around.
The reason why the signs are so tall is so they don't get blocked by the mountains. Sheesh. (I was born in Gary.)
Enjoyed your history...of 2020 outbreak.. was also when Pandemic it ccurred?
Thanks! - the HIV Outbreak was in the early half of the 2010 decade. Pretty sure I mentioned it in the video somewhere just can’t remember off the top of my head. I would have to rewatch it.
I didn't know that was a bigger midwestern thing to add the 'tucky. Up in Michigan there's a Detroit suburb named Hazel Park which was named Hazeltucky because of the many transplants from Kentucky and Tennessee living there supporting the horse racing for the local racetrack which is now now more and is currently a huge dispensary and storage lot for vehicles for sale.
Afriend of mine told me about Hazeltucky, he lives in Warren.
30 minutes east of Reno NV they refer to things in the town eg business names as Ferntucky
I was literally like why the hell are those signs all so tall? Must be a highway nearby. Then you say “hold on..”
The Scottsburg skyline
Why not a close up of the General Lee parked along the road you passed in Scottsburg ? @12:38
We Built Dollar Generals Just about every Hick Town in Indiana, I personally Love Indiana.
There's a lot of truth in what you say, but your way of saying it was pretty mean-spirited. In the past 50-60 years the gap between the rich and the poor has gotten much wider, and rural areas bear much of the brunt of this phenomenon. Every person in each of these towns is an individual with his/her own story .. but what they share is that they are living in areas which have seen the money leaving. Along with the money goes opportunity, and along with the opportunity goes hope. Hopelessness leads to bad choices .. like drugs. Let's just not forget that these people are Americans, like the rest of us.
The gap between rich and poor is caused in part by voting for politicians that are happy to offshore jobs and let drugs in through a "Open DEM Border."
We need the politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle to start changing the way we tax corporations that outsource so many blue collar jobs to one set of foreign countries, while they establish non-functional "offshore" locations in completely different foreign countries to get out of paying taxes here (like the double Irish arrangement, or the Dutch sandwich) while they still earn most of their corporate profits from people in the US buying their products.
With all do respect, the death of these type of towns have everything to do with automation and the shift to a high education economy. You can look up the manufacturing data, the us produces more than it ever did. The cold hard fact is that all you can really do in these types of towns is agriculture and support of agriculture. There might be a paper mill or similar business that you can commute to but that is going to be about it.
@@mrspeigle1 -- But a lot of the companies were outsourcing manual labor to other countries even before we had so many jobs replaced by robotics. They went where the wages were lowest. I'm not saying that automation isn't another really important factor hurting the working class -- it **absolutely** is hurting the working classes first, and it is steadily working its way up into the middle classes and beyond.
People who used to think they were in the type of jobs that couldn't be outsourced are finding that the "knowledge economy" can also be outsourced to English-speaking people in India, Pakistan, or the Philippines, for example.
Likewise, even some physicians are finding that their specialties can be outsourced. Radiologists and pathologists are now having to deal with imaging studies and photomicrographs of cytology and histology slides being interpreted by physicians in the same specialty overseas. Only the technicians who are actually working with the patients in a hands-on capacity to actually take the x-ray, or ultrasound, or MRI, or to process the incoming tissue specimens, etc. still have some job security.
My generation was always pressured to get as much education as possible because we were worried about the factory jobs our parents and grandparents generations had being outsourced to other countries. But at this point quite frankly, it is safer to have a hands-on job that can only be done here on United States soil - like being a plumber or landscaper or something else where the labor you do can't be replaced by a robot or somebody overseas with an Internet connection.
That's why the only way to really stop this march forward where all sorts of jobs become obsolete is to make it financially painful for companies to replace those jobs with foreign workers, or robots, or AI or whatever else technology might come up with.
Henry Ford was actually a pretty horrible person who did some pretty horrible things, but one thing he got right was paying those early auto workers enough to be able to afford to buy the product they were building. Companies need to start looking at their employees as assets and part of the customer base, as opposed to liabilities.
The struggle you speak of is what Hoosiers have been _voting for_ for decades, so y’know …
How much do people have to suffer before they realize that they’re being played like fiddles by people who _don’t_ sabotage themselves & their own interests.
Chris brother I know what you mean about Indiana I live in Indiana for 48 years I graduated 1994 from high school and I understand what you're saying about Indiana
You hit the nail on the head with that "Scotts-tucky" comment. In Rockford people say "Loves-tucky" when referring to Loves Park (and as you noted in a past episode Loves Park is a nice little community). Always enjoy your content, thanks for another great episode 👏
I refer to it as Loves Parkansas.
I was in Rockford in the mid 90's, because Atwood Automotive bought Keiper Recaro in Battle Creek, Mi, where I worked. We called it Atrock. I was in Loves Park. Yes, Lovestucky works. Never did visit the Clock Tower. Did eat at a German restaurant there, and the Bombay Bicycle Club restaurant. I went to a grocery store, huge. The liquor section was the size of some Kroger stores, Logli I think. I saw that it was an old factory town, like anywhere in the rust belt.
Now that's funny. Laugh. I said laugh! Hahaha. Lovesparkansas. Priceless.
Hoosiers call whatever town they don't like townatucky. Southern Indiana and Kentucky are so pretty. It's better than all the flat cornfields.
You passed the old clinic where I was born. Live in Miami now.
Reminds me of things I haven't heard for a while. In our area, we had two stand out towns. Russelltucky, and Veederstucky. Yes, it shows.
I hear locals around my area calling Stockbridge Michigan "Stocktucky" 🤣
Lol yup, people use that nickname all over the place
Yep. And closer to Detroit, we have Taylor-tucky, Ypsi-tucky, and several other "-tucky" locations.
It's interesting how all these places think that parts of their states are like Kentucky. So Kentucky supposed to be the source of all this? Kentucky supposed to be at the bottom of the food chain? It's always nice when society looks at a problem and find a scapegoat so they don't have to deal with it. Adolf Hitler would be the prime example of using this method. So we're on a slippery road we need to watch out. I'm talking about our country as a whole passing the buck and just saying well I'll blame somebody else not pay any attention to it after that cuz I've done my part. Well they just earned their degree a BS degree. No not bachelors of science. Just a degree in bulshit!
Thanks!
I’m from Austin Indiana born and raised. I lived there for 23 years before moving to Kentucky. 2 things I’ve never heard that Salem puts on a turkey call concert in the winter and I’ve never heard Scottsburg referred to as Scotttucky. I’m not calling you out I’m just saying that being from there I’ve never heard either of those. And you are totally right about Mountain Dew up there we live on it lol. Austin and Scottsburg both are a far far cry from what they used to be. They used to be both very good little towns to live in and raise a family. That was all before 1998. It seems like after 98 it all went to crap.
I live here in Austin, and I see nothing wrong. I have been 5 years. People here are very nice, but just as any other town, I do have the ways and means to protect myself from the criminal element. Nuff said.
Austin has to have the highest per capita level of UK fans than any other city in Indiana.
UK meaning Uncle Kracker right?
So glad it was a small town in northwest Indiana where I lived for a number of years.:)
Yes Iam a proud deplorable and Hilljack Thanks for the vids
Hammond, Indiana! Between Gary and Chicago. Never heard of these places luckily. Prolly sundown towns
Yeaaaa Ima trucker and when a bad accident happens on 65 I have to get off and take the backroads I get nervous
As one who grew up in Southwestern Indiana (Mt. Vernon) I can honestly say that a good 1/3 of the State of Indiana could be considered as an extension of Kentucky since most of the native Hoosiers living in southern Indiana can trace their ancestry to many places in Kentucky along with Virginia and Tennessee. I know I can. Wonder if you paid a visit to Lexington, Indiana.
You forget Bloomfieldtucky
In much of Indiana, Kentucky starts 30-50 miles south of wherevet you are.
More seriously, the accent changes every 20-25 miles.
Cause after all your still living in Indiana now right?
Hey Chris, Jim here, nice vid bro. I went to IPFW in Fort Wayne, IN. back in the day. And the next town over called Muncee was very racist. I hated it.
Outside of Ball State, “Funcie Muncie” has a lot of issues. Their biggest issue might be the same one that Austin has.
@@ChrisHarden Muncie's biggest issue is shared with Flint. What happened to Warner Gear, Chevrolet's Muncie Transmission Plant, Indiana Wire & Steel, Ball Glass, Marhoefer Packing, Guide Light, Delco-Remy and all the support industries and businesses. New Castle, Muncie and a dozen other towns had box factories, Modernfold Door and dozens of other manufacturing and job shops. They manufactured children's clothing at a factory in New Castle. Now made in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia. Take a ride through North Carolina. All that's left of the dozens of Burlington Mills factories are the foundations.
@@greggarbacz2566 Muncie is like a much, much less dramatic version of Flint. Anderson or Marion, would be a better comparison to Flint imo… even though all three are much smaller.
Thanks! For some MT Dew in Hilljack areas / when in the Ghettos carry some job applications both scenarios will protect u
Haha thanks, appreciate it!
You're a talented storyteller Chris! What a great way to spice up a travel video of a flatland rural town. Kinda like Garrison Keillor🤗.
G.K. is an ass grabber
Chris is definitely fed up with Southern Indiana!
SN: As somebody who's lived in the Carolinas my entire life, I thought "Redneck" is exclusively a Down South term. I stand corrected.
Southern Indiana native. There's a reason I moved to Chicago when I was an adult.
I was born in Seymour Indiana and lived in Scott and Jennings counties. In my day, the term redneck was used by the hippies to describe farm boys. My parents (Kentuckians) considered it a slur, certainly nothing to be proud of.
@@Eustice2 my brother in law, a southern Indiana native, happily accepts it. He calls himself a redneck. I also try not have to talk to him often
Where in SC? Inman, here.
@@soco13466 Charleston native here…
Youve aint been to wheeler holler yet?
The thumbnail of this video is a screenshot of the back yard of 555 short st. Some useless information from a guy that walks past it every day delivering the mail...
Alot of the info is pretty spot on. From the video I gather this was shot in the spring of 2021 possibly. I see little clues like the vail's lumber building that burnt hadnt been cleaned up yet and the austin elementary school is still under construction.
The building labeled as morgan foods facility is actually the old American Can building that is now leased out as warehouse storage. Morgan Foods sits behind that big warehouse across the railroad tracks.
The HIV epidemic was a pretty big black eye for Austin although I will say from what I witnessed I believe that the number of cases assigned to Austin to be somewhat inflated. Scott County had the needle exchange program while neighboring counties didn't get the same approval. From what I was told neighboring counties had people coming into Scott County and taking advantage of the programs and could be counted as cases.
I read every news story about it while it was going on and noticed some news channel trickery with the footage taken with the health dept. One woman was interviewed on a front porch at an address that I know for a fact did not live there even though they claim she did. She was from Seymour. I guess as you say in the video its all the same wherever you are in southern indiana.
I'm in no way trying to defend how horrible the situation was as alot of people were suffering badly.
I can definitely say that the community has improved from what it was prior to 2015. I would regularly see prostitutes walking the streets and open drug use with discarded needles everywhere prior to the epidemic. Alot of the dilapidated housing has finally started being torn down in the last few years but the county is still definitely lacking alot of amenities it needs.
I'm 53 from Hammond, IN and I've never even heard of all these places. But it's so funny, up here, the first town south of the Calumet region is Cedar Lake and we have always called it Cedar Tucky 😅 9:58
Anytime on vacation when I tell someone where I'm from and they say "oh you must like the Colts." And I'm like "no I'm a bears fan, Hammond is right on the border of Chicago." And they're like "no that's impossible! You're in Indiana..." And I can feel my IQ points dropping just being around the person.
My takeaway: Scottsburg is still 100 times better that San Francisco or Portland "Not Portland Maine but Portland Oregon"
Oops, time to get back to work......
I'd agree with that
Chris, your humor in this vid was great, pushing a point but not going over the edge..........@@ChrisHarden
Thanks for providing a solution for those here in Texas who complain about unaffordable housing in Austin!
A little classic historical Texas had to straighten out messes like this in Indiana and other parts of the country is what's needed
14:00 Used to be the swimming pool, the green area on the right.
I grew up in Toledo, Ohio, but my mom's from Washington and my dad's from Jasper (which was briefly featured in the movie Hoosiers). It's fun to call them hicks but there's a lot of bright minds out of them parts, and they got hearts of gold. If American society ever falls into race war and civilizational collapse it'll be small towns like these that will absorb and feed the white refugees from the cities, and after all the city folk devour themselves it'll be these small town folks who get the lights back on, the tractors rolling, and the pumps working.
Most people don't give enough thought to the bell curve. If you are capable of accessing, watching, and appreciating this production, you are almost certainly more intelligent and capable than at least 80% of the general population. That other 80% has to live somehow, somewhere.
My sister had lived in Scottsburg and embracing enough my mother was married to some hill jack from there. There’s good and bad in all walks of life and all that separates us is the percentage. The percentage in Scott co is quite high.
By the congrats to the boys of Scottsburg high..Class 2A State Champs..the best of the best in hoops
Just before you commented on the really tall signs I was thinking wow what tall signs they have.
Lol it’s odd no doubt.
I was born and raised in Salem, but have lived in Forida, Kentucky, and now Chicago. I don't believe that there is anything wrong in any small town in my home state. We all have our small town ways, but can adjust to the big city if we wish. Youvare just prejudiced against small towns.
Star-Spangled Banner on a turkey call! Dang right! That’s talent I don’t care where you are 😂
I live in Scottsburg now and I am also from Knox county around Corbin. This area is better than Knox county.
This looks like an ordinary lower middle class small town.
Good jobs would make a huge difference.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, family from Logansport. Live in Austin, Texas.
South Bend, stopover point on North Central Airlines, between Battle Creek and O'Hare. This is when they used pterodactyl type planes, DC3's. I'm 70 as of this date, Feb 17.
CONNERTUCKY! WOOHOO! HOLD MY BEER!
The original Latin Alphabet didn't have a "U". I don't know the full history of that alphabet, but I've seen "PVBLIC LIBRARY" on other libraries around the country as well.
BTW, I'm a Hoosier, born and raised in Indianapolis...achieved escape velocity a few years back and now call Houston home.
12:38 how'd you let this slip by without comment?
I love Scottsburg and the people are the kindest ❤
The V used in the spelling public has been used in that way for hundreds of years . Not sure why. It's that way. But in the past 43 years working on . Historic masonry restoration I have seen the V used on all types of Public Buildings and Most of the time it was used in the spelling of Public library.
lol…come on over to Evansville
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I swear.. I was born in Queens NY , lived in Iowa, lived in NC, now in Indiana... I think I like these red neck girls lol . Oh man what is this place doing to me !? 😂 Indiana can be tricky but it's pretty chill ..
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I moved from Kansas to Indiana in the 8th grade myself. Not by choice either lol
My man!
Indiana is like the guy sipping a beer for 3 hours, pretending to be drunk. Northern border they call it Michiana. A college there has a mascot named Fighting Illini. LoL. They should at least call the Eastern border In-ah-Ho 😂
Fighting Illini or Fighting Irish?
@jasonhsu4711 Notre Dame is fighting Irish, also in Indiana. Illini is a different college somewhere, I seen the team bus a few times.
@@Not_sure5 Which college in Michiana has the Fighting Illini? I'm an alumnus of UIUC. Given the side of the Chief Illiniwek controversy that I'm on, I'd gladly cede the Fighting Illini brand to a different school.
I once ran a tech srvc district that covered Indiana & pieces of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky & Illinois. I called it the IndyUckyMichOisOh District.
No - the boss didn’t let me put that on our cards.
… & just say’n, The Fighting Illini, that’s the University of Illinois. The main campus is in Urbana, another is in Chicago, yet another is in Springfield, & it wouldn’t be _too_ big a surprise if they had a community college location or two, like the IU/Purdue system in Indiana.
Your jokes are so dry , but that is what makes them hilarious 😂
Austin & Scottsburg have come a LONG way! You should have grown up there in the 60'S & 70'S. Left Pistol City (Austin) after h.s. and have only gone back to see mom and for funerals. I actually miss old friends but never was any opptunity in my chosen career field so going back wasn't an option.
I'm from Evansville, Indiana, and I wonder if it's still depressing as I left it?
I'm originally from Mt. Vernon, so I would have to say that it is.
@@jamesgriffin8354 😢
You don’t say anything about Clear Creek ‼️❓‼️. I loved hauling stone out of there.
He learned from "The General ".
Hey man check this out those things happen all over the united states of America. Not just in southern Indiana. It's most likely happening in Kansas already by now to most likely.
Been there, done that,yep!
They just described almost every small town in the country. Let's talk about the crooked cops too.
Good people. God Bless America.
Born & raised in southern Indiana..close to Ohio river..
Transplanted ..more up in so Indiana.. population unknown!
Any validity of your opinion went out the window when you mispronounced Louisville.
Pronounced like you got a sock in you mouth. Loo-a-vuull.
You mean "Loo a vul?"
Where I live the crime rate is high for the same reason " Drugs". Governor Abbott signed a bill making it a state jail felony to steal, buy, or sell a stolen CC. With up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. You told it like it was during this trip. I had a friend from Beechgrove Indiana. I do not blame the smart graduates for leaving. Having grown up in Berlin DE and then living in Houston most of my life I was a city dweller until I retired in the country.
I'm all for the case of taken care of this and legal fashion. Let's lock them up. But there is a bad side to doing that. The prison system is a criminal University for training individuals inmate to become better criminals. I'm not saying the system rain by government and private corporation. I'm talking about the system's organized by the inmates. No I don't have a better answer. Just pointing this out. Hey welcome to the countryside.
Well the only city in MI I've ever heard tucky put at the end of it is Taylor so Taylortucky & that is literally because so many ppl moved here from the south, they couldn't tell the difference in accents, to work at the big 3. My dad's side from TN & mom's side from NC but I grew up wit a LOT of ppl from KY so...
There’s a suburb of Flint called Burton and they have a festival called “The Burtucky days.” It’s real. I couldn’t believe it when I discovered that.
I live in Southern Indiana and Scottsburg looks a lot better than most of the towns around me.
Where in southern Indiana would you be?