Ohio in The Hamlet (Location)

Ratliff mentions "Ohio" when he's talking with people in Frenchman's Bend about "the Northerner" who wants to create a goat farm in Yoknapatawpha - he includes "Ohio" and, for example, "Boston, Maine" as a way to represent 'the North' as a different kind of place than "this country" - i.e. Yoknapatawpha, or the South (87, 89).