Southern Indiana is its own entity. If you live here you have a deep love for family, cool summer nights, basketball, and small moments. Corn fields and gravel roads will always remind you of home, but you also found love for the city in Louisville. Being from Southern Indiana definitely has its eccentricities, so here's a list to explain why.
1. When you travel anywhere but the deep south, everyone thinks you're from the deep south.
You should travel anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line. My accent is not bad.
2. College basketball is life.
You have a favorite team and you're fiercely loyal to them, even if you don't like sports. March Madness is literal madness in southern Indiana.
3. Your allergies are real.
You laugh at anyone outside of the Ohio River Valley who complains about allergies. Louisville may be known for the Derby, but it was ranked number one as the worst city to live in for allergies.
4. You're used to temperamental weather.
It can go from 75 and sunny to 32 and snowing on any given day of the year. You better believe a Hoosier's wardrobe is ready for anything, though.
5. You don't think it's weird when you see a tractor driving on the highway.
You probably had to drive a tractor to school in high school as well.
6. You're not quite sure what a Hoosier is but you're sure proud to be one.![]()
Hoo-Hoo-Hoosiers!
7. Parks and Recreation is your favorite TV show.
No television show has ever understood your life like this one.
8. You get very defensive when people pronounce Louisville incorrectly.
Hearing Louis-Ville is like nails on a chalk board.
9. All soda is Coke.
Pepsi is coke. Sprite is coke. Dr. Pepper is coke. Coke is coke. Ale 8 is heaven in a bottle.
10. When you go anywhere you claim Louisville as your home because you don't want to explain where your tiny Indiana town is.
Indiana. That's near Chicago, right?
11. You're fiercely loyal to your high school, long after you've graduated.
It's irrational, but it's there and you don't know how to make it stop. #highlandersforlife
12. You can't decide if you're Southern, Midwestern, city, or country because you're mostly a mixture of them all.
You're may live on a farm but you're only a five-minute drive a big city. You have a southern twang but you identify as a Midwesterner. Indiana is a crossroads in more ways than one.
13. You can't stand to be asked if you like corn anymore.
Yes. It's delicious. Moving on.
14. You don't know how the phenomenon started, but you're not even surprised anymore when people check to see if you're wearing shoes when you mention your home state.
Yes, I wear shoes. Unless it's a nice summer day.
