This has been bugging me for a while: I grew up in an overwhelmingly white environment. When speaking of locations, the prepositions have always been up north, down south, out west, and back east. Say, up in Seattle, down in Los Angeles, back in New York, out in say, Utah depending on your location.
But with almost all the minority types (especially Mexicans) I speak with nowadays, I've noticed their go to preposition is over. I'm up in northern California, and they'll say yeah I used to live over in Portland. Or my cousin says it snows a lot over in Denver. I'm going to go visit my sister over in Arizona.
I just wondered if anybody else has noticed this. Or if anybody else cares.