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Originally Posted by Yuri
Are there forests and some hills in Indiana, or it's all flat farmland?
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southern IN below Indy has some pretty large tracts of forest land, including brown county state park/yellowwood state forest, which together hold some 800 sq. miles of woodlands. and there are LOTS of other stands of woods down there, like hoosier national forest, interspersed with farmland.
you don't really find the same extent of woodland in IL until you're
WAY down in the very southern extreme of the state down by shawnee national forest. overall, IL is more intensely agricultural in terms of land use, though there are certainly significant stretches of corn and soy bean fields in northern IN along I-65 that very closely mimic much of downstate IL.
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Originally Posted by eschaton
As an aside, Wynona Ryder's "Great Lakes" accent in the series has always pissed me off, because outside of the area around Gary, no one in Indiana talks like that.
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yeah, rural IN has a lot of country twang from my experiences (hell, you can even hear some good old country twang from people up in rural michigan), and places like Indy and other smaller IN cities sound way more "standard midwestern" than the nasally, vowel-shifting "great lakes" accent.