re: Which Expansion was Less of a Fit: Ark/SCAR, Aggie/Mizzou, or OU/TX?

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SC was the first state to secede from the Union. We're about as southern as it gets.

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Yep.

My family came from Banks County, GA to settle in eastern OK during the Land Rush of 1889. Many others came from Appalachia, and MS and other southern states after the Civil War.

Nearly all of eastern Oklahoma is heavy south.