re: Does Missouri regret coming to SEC now?

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I'd agree that Benton County (Rogers/Bentonville) has generally always been somewhat less southern. That was the case long before Wal-Mart's big growth. They were one of the only reliably Republican counties in Arkansas, back when the rest of the south was Democratic. They got a lot of Michiganders and Chicagoans for decades, both workers and retirees.


Fayetteville is southern. Count the BBQ joints. Its not traditional "black" old south, and western Arkansas has always had a little bit more of "wild west" to it ala Texas, but its still Southern. Families from Little Rock, Stuttgart and Pine Bluff have been sending their kids to Fayetteville to school since 1871. Lots of the local bigwigs are transplants from eastern Arkansas and the Delta.

There is a definite shift that happens shortly north of Joplin that makes Missouri feel very midwestern for the most part. Cornfields, etc.

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