re: Missouri is a partially Southern state

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Actually, the main complaints that I had always heard about Missouri being let into the SEC had little to do with the cultural aspects of it and more to do with the fact that it appeared that MU primarily wanted to join the Big Ten and that they only expressed interest in the SEC after the Big Ten gave them the cold shoulder first. That is what seems harder to forgive for some folks on this message board than Missouri refusing to join the Confederacy...

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The herp derp is strong in this post. For one thing, we never had an SEC offer until after the Big Ten flirtation was already over, so its kinda unfair to assume if we had both options that we would not have wanted the SEC. I like all of our fanbase followed the process closely and I can tell you without a doubt that the entire time the Big Ten rumors were floating, nobody out there even fathomed there would be any possibility of joining the SEC, nor was the SEC rumored to be expanding at all.

As for Missouri and the Confederacy, I don't think General Lee and company got your memo seeing as the Confederacy claimed Missouri as one of its members - so too did the Union of course, but Missouri's legislature was actually trying to vote to join with the South at one point and were hence forcibly evicted by the Union army and the Union then installed a puppet legislature in Missouri for the rest of the War. In that regard Missouri was far closer to being part of the Confederacy than was, say, Kentucky, whose government very openly and willingly elected not to join.