Southern Indiana
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Southern Indiana, in the United States, is notable because it is culturally and geographically more similar to the South than it is to the rest of the state of Indiana. It is also the first-settled area of the state. In particular, the eastern portion of the region is part of the greater Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area, and many people living in Clark and Floyd counties work, or attend school in Kentucky.
The definition of Southern Indiana is usually at least composed of three county "tiers": The first tier would be the southernmost, all of which border the Ohio River. North of it is the second tier, and north of that is the third tier. The first three tiers are geographically within the Golden Circle as proposed in the 1850s (see Golden Circle (Slavery)}.
Counties included in the Southern Indiana region by "tier" going west to east are below.
- First Tier: Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Clark.
- Second Tier: Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Orange, Washington, Scott, Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio.
- Third Tier: Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Jackson, Jennings, Ripley, Dearborn
- Fourth Tier (only counties commonly included are listed): Sullivan, Greene, Monroe, Brown.
The region's largest city is Evansville. Other major cities include the Louisville suburbs of New Albany, Jeffersonville and Clarksville.
