snuffy smith's home identified by regional dialect

[Baker, John]

        A strip in the first year or two identified Li'l Abner's home as "Dogpatch, Kentucky."  I don't recall the state being mentioned in the later years of the strip, which may be why the Dogpatch, USA amusement park was in Arkansas.

John Baker


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But wasn't Dogpatch, home of the skonk works, the Little Wonder
Specialty Co., and the Sadie Hawkins Day race and dance a hamlet in
Kentucky?

-Wilson Gray