re: Missouri is a partially Southern state

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Columbia? Scan the crowd at a football game. Hoodies. Everywhere.

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I'm CoMo born and raised, don't got no hoodies. I'm so hood, but don't got no hoodies.

Look, my best buddy in law school was from near Starkville MS so I know full well there are major cultural differences starting with blatant difference in accent and all the way down. To pretend otherwise would be bullshite. The funny part though for me is the "verdict: yankee" stuff. Cuz if you asked any true Yankee (and I mean this, not just the Northeast, but ask someone from a place as close to us as Illinois or kansas or Nebraska) what Missouri is and they will say we are Southern hillbilly all the way. Like clockwork.

Again I say, the truth is this: NOBODY knows what Missouri is, but it's provocative. It gets the people going!