re: Missouri is a partially Southern state

I grew up south of Lexington in KY. Historically my family has gone from a Virginia Plantation down through North Carolina, over into Tennessee, and up just across the border into Kentucky. I guess that's why personally I always identify with the south. We call all carbonated beverages a Coke and so on and so forth.

However!

When I get north of Lexington I no longer feel as if I'm in the south. Kentucky is not a wholly southern state. From Louisville to Cinci it dissipates quickly. Not to say they don't share the same qualities, but the culture is decidedly muddled from there on out. And historically I have always thought of Kentucky as a Southern state that went to bat for the wrong team. Its the confederacies fault actually, they got too jumpy and broke our neutrality.


Now living in St. Louis I can say if you head south out of town down by Ste. Genevieve it starts to feel southern. Pines and all! But St. Louis might as well be Cleveland in my eyes.

Alright.... I'm done.... BIG WALL OF TEXT.