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"Western Kentucky" really shouldn't redirect here. Western Kentucky is much bigger than the Jackson Purchase. Western Kentucky University is 50 miles or so east of the Purchase. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sajita (talk • contribs) 20:32, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
My family are from the Purchase (Murray, Paducah, Hazel, and Grand Rivers), and I agree with you. I have heard natives (which I'm really not, I was raised in Louisville by my Purchase-born parents so essentially I am a north central Kentuckian) call the Purchase "WEST" Kentucky, to distinguish it from "Western Kentucky", which of course means what it says, the left half of the state. If this language is still an issue in the article, I would suggest (just trying to be helpful) that the term "West Kentucky" might already exist as a documented colloquialism (autonymic demonym, if you will) that would be a synonym for the Jackson Purchase, distinguished (in those cultural circles) from "Western Kentucky", which arguably would include Louisville (where I'm from), Bowling Green, the Cave Country, Pennyrile, and the Jackson Purchase. [Can't help but inject a funny thing: "Where they make BBQ that Owensboro WISHES they made, by gum!"] :) But the poster above (10 years ago) has a perfectly valid point. I figured I'd mention it here versus jumping in and changing things. I hate reverting my own stupid and moronic edits, with a passion. Alan Canon (talk) 04:59, 17 September 2020 (UTC)