re: Your first impression on A&M and Mizzou after joing the SEC

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LOL. To be fair though I only play up the "Missouri = Yankee" thing because that is the role that SEC Rant posters want us to play and won't take no for an answer. So I play it for all its worth. But honestly Missouri is at best a Dixie/Yankee mix and hodgepodge...the county that Columbia MO is located in has actually been called "Little Dixie" forever, the Mizzou band played "Dixie" at games up through the 1960s, MO was a border state claimed by both sides of the War, the Missourians who battled the jayhawker marauders from kansas and who burned Lawrence to the ground were Southern sympathizers, etc. But hey, if it snows a lot we must be Yanks, so who am I to disagree. ;)

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I know I definitely agree, I just like the distinction, however arbitrary it is. Many Aggies clamored on about the "cultural" similarities to the deep south when the SEC thing was merely rumor, and while East Texas shares some cultural history with Louisiana, a college town in central Texas filled with kids from Dallas and Houston suburbs is far from anything to do with Dixie. It's just message board foder. At the end of the day, all of you use pork in your bbq instead of beef, and that is the true crime.