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(moved from user-page Tedickey (talk) 12:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC))
Actually that information was correct. I (wiki editor Louisvillian) along with Wiki editor Gator were the main two contributors to that Kentucky Sub article on that page. The information came from the (which are already cited on the page) Southern Focus study in which the data is found several times on the Southern article's archives. So Im going to revert my edits —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.215.105 (talk) 20:00, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- The text in WP didn't agree with the topic. Looks as if you simply did a revert without rereading what you wrote. For example, WP says 60% of Virginians, and the external link says 82%. Tedickey (talk) 20:39, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
No No below is a cut out of the data that could be viewed through links on the sources. The 60% was referring to the percentage of Virginians who viewed their "themselves as Southerners" the 82% came from asking if they believed that their "state/community" was Southern
WHERE IS THE SOUTH?
The South has been defined by a great many characteristics, but one of the most interesting definitions is where people believe that they are in the South. A related definition is where the residents consider themselves to be southerners, although this is obviously affected by the presence of non-southern migrants.
Until recently we did not have the data to answer the question of where either of those conditions is met. Since 1992, however, 14 twice-yearly Southern Focus Polls conducted by the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have asked respondents from the 11 former Confederate states, Kentucky, and Oklahoma "Just for the record, would you say that your community is in the South, or not?" Starting with the third of the series, the same question was asked of smaller samples of respondents from West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and Missouri (all except Missouri included in the Bureau of the Census's "South"). Respondents from the 13 southern states were also asked "Do you consider yourself a Southerner, or not?," while starting with the second survey those from other states were asked "Do you consider yourself or anyone in your family a Southerner?," and if so, whether they considered themselves to be Southerners.
It is clear from these data that if the point is to isolate southerners for study or to compare them to other Americans the definition of the South employed by the Southern Focus Poll (and, incidentally, by the Gallup Organization) makes sense, while the Bureau of the Census definiton does not. We already knew that, of course, but it's good to be able to document it.
--John Shelton Reed
Percent who say their community is in the South (percentage base in parentheses)
Alabama 98 (717) South Carolina 98 (553) Louisiana 97 (606) Mississippi 97 (431) Georgia 97 (1017) Tennessee 97 (838) North Carolina 93 (1292) Arkansas 92 (400) Florida 90 (1792) Texas 84 (2050) Virginia 82 (1014) Kentucky 79 (582) Oklahoma 69 (411)
West Virginia 45 (82) Maryland 40 (173) Missouri 23 (177) Delaware 14 (21) D.C. 7 (15)
Percent who say they are Southerners (percentage base in parentheses)
Mississippi 90 (432) Louisiana 89 (606) Alabama 88 (716) Tennessee 84 (838) South Carolina 82 (553) Arkansas 81 (399) Georgia 81 (1017) North Carolina 80 (1290) Texas 68 (2053) Kentucky 68 (584) Virginia 60 (1012) Oklahoma 53 (410) Florida 51 (1791)
West Virginia 25 (84) Maryland 19 (192) Missouri 15 (197) New Mexico 13 (68) Delaware 12 (25) D.C. 12 (16) Utah 11 (70) Indiana 10 (208) Illinois 9 (362) Ohio 8 (396) Arizona 7 (117) Michigan 6 (336)
All others less than 6 percent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.215.105 (talk) 04:50, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- It may be "found within the survey", but the link that you're pointing to does not give the information you're "quoting" here. Try to find a usable link. Tedickey (talk) 11:50, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
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