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What does "upstate" mean in the US? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hear it in movies so the time. We're going upstate. I went upstate. Etc

I never hear downstate, or similar. Does it just mean going north?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It means the Northern part of the state, typically when the state has a North-South cultural divide. It's not exclusive to the US though, I've seen it used in places like Sao Paulo and Lagos before. Anywhere where one locality serves as a drain on the rest will get people to refer to different halves of the place, I guess nobody learned from Athens and Sparta.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Similarly the small town I grew up in had “the other side of the tracks”