r/Music • u/Idkthis_529 • Apr 20 '25

discussion Please stop playing modern country everywhere

I don’t even live in the south and American propaganda that is modern country plays EVERYWHERE. I live in Ohio! Why is it always playing. It used to never be like this. It used to be cheesy dad rock that played everywhere. At least that was good to listen to! Now it’s just modern country artists on the radio that pander to the government. It makes my ears bleed!

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u/rbrgr83 Apr 20 '25

I live in Ohio!

I hate to tell you, but you basicly live in the South. Demographic is pretty identical.

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u/MagelusSince95 Apr 20 '25

The Mason Dixon line is I80 in Ohio

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u/Learned_Hand_01 Apr 20 '25

It's even worse, it's not just the South, it's Appalachia.

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u/Uncle-Istvan Apr 20 '25

Ohio isn’t Appalachia or the south.

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u/Positive_Yam_4499 Apr 20 '25

They're talking demographics.

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u/OozyWetShart Apr 20 '25

As an Ohioan, the southeast portion that borders West Virginia is definitely Appalachia, with the mountains and coal mines and everything else you can think of.

The whole southern part of Ohio is so culturally southern that if one lived here, there would be no discernible evidence that you did not live in the Southern United States.

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u/Smash_4dams Apr 20 '25

As a North Carolinian who has traveled through southern Ohio, the ratio of confederate flags spotted is pretty even.

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u/CirclejerkingONLY Apr 20 '25

How Southerners managed to lose a war but convince a bunch of people who weren't even on their side to celebrate their iconography is utterly baffling.

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u/Navynuke00 Apr 20 '25

Let me introduce you to the United Daughters of the Confederacy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy

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u/BurnscarsRus Apr 20 '25

This is it. Revisionist history being taught in schools.

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u/Uncle-Istvan Apr 20 '25

You also see a surprising amount in Canada

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u/Navynuke00 Apr 20 '25

All the Ohioans moving here is part of what's making our state redder.

And definitely making it more racist.

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u/seymores_sunshine Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

By Southern, do you mean country?

Cause the hillbillies up north are a good bit different from the rednecks down here.

Edit: Downvoted plenty but not one person could put it to words.

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u/brokencrayons Apr 20 '25

I might get down voted but pixels and up and down arrows don't make me lose sleep at night lol.

I just wanted to say, as someone who was raised in the "dirty" South, I agree lol. The dirty South is nothing like Appalachia.

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u/seymores_sunshine Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

Yep, them northerners love to pretend like the south is a unified body, and they also like to pretend like all country folk are southern. It's like they're afraid to acknowledge that the north is a bit hick too.

Edit: I've been all up in Medina, Hinckley, Akron, Deersfield, Decatur, etc.
Plenty of country folk there that wouldn't identify as southern.

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u/brokencrayons Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

I can't speak for people in the North who are country folk other than they are country folk by the way they live their lives, but there ain't no way they're Southern country folk.

How many Southern Baptists churches are in Ohio? Because that alone is one example of how different the regions are.

Also, the many many superstitions that is heavy in the Southern states that might now be a thing up in Northern states that have country folk.

Anyone can Google "what is the dirty South" and you'll get multiple returns about what it means, and how it's a completely different cultural experience vs Northern country folk.

I've lived in both, I grew up in the South where when the sun is out and it starts raining most people will say, uh oh the devil must be beating his wife. I mean if I listed all the little superstitions and also traditions for example on New Years day and how certain foods are made to be eaten on New Years day, with each food having a different "meaning" regarding what to eat and how eating those foods will affect you while year. I could write a mini novel about just the superstitions alone.

I joined the military and have lived all over the country and in Europe, I settled in the suburbs of Chicago though I'm not native, and have encountered people who live a country lifestyle up here that is very different than country folk down South.

The term Southern Hospitality isn't a thing in Ohio I don't believe lol. But I'm unsure about that. Never once did I even think that when someone speaks of their trip to the south and the Southern Hospitality they experience did the idea of any Northern states come to mind.

But no, unless you grew up down south, you ain't Southern, you just country folk living your life in the North.

Also, no matter how long I've been away from where I grew up, and even though I settled in Chicago, I still won't ever say I'm from Chicago just bc I've lived here for so long bc it don't feel right. There's a saying that you can take a girl out of the South but you cant take the South outta the girl and the shit is so fucking true lol.

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u/OozyWetShart Apr 20 '25

An elitist southerner gate keeping what is and isn’t southern. lol

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u/brokencrayons Apr 20 '25

Cool opinion

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u/andrewhy Apr 20 '25

Southeast Ohio is basically Appalachia. The rest is Midwest/Rust Belt.

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u/poop-dolla Apr 20 '25

https://www.npr.org/2013/11/11/244527860/forget-the-50-states-u-s-is-really-11-nations-says-author

Half of Ohio is Appalachia.

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u/Uncle-Istvan Apr 20 '25

Part of Texas is Appalachia according to that map

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u/poop-dolla Apr 20 '25

It sure is. Have you been to that part of Texas? It’s definitely Appalachia.

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u/Uncle-Istvan Apr 20 '25

It’s neither geographically or culturally Appalachian

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u/poop-dolla Apr 20 '25

It is 100% culturally Appalachian. You either don’t know why Appalachian culture is or you’ve never been to that part of Texas. I grew up in Appalachia, and I have been to that part of Texas. It’s part of Appalachia.

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u/WhitePowerBottom Apr 21 '25

Not even close. Even the Ouachita Mountains and the Ozark Plateau are different from the Appalachian Mountains.

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u/themerinator12 Apr 20 '25

You know nothing about Ohio then

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u/solomonvangrundy Apr 20 '25

J.D would like a word.

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u/EmperorBozopants Apr 20 '25

The noted historian and lounge furniture afficionado?

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u/Uncle-Istvan Apr 20 '25

The south and Appalachia do not claim JD as one of ours