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re: Missouri is a partially Southern state
Posted on 6/6/13 at 10:28 am to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
Posted on 6/6/13 at 10:28 am to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
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quote: Columbia? Scan the crowd at a football game. Hoodies. Everywhere. 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!
This. Completely.
I moved down to Biloxi during HS, and constantly I would be referred to as a Yankee. By the same token, I went up to NY for grad school, and people instantly call me southern because of my "accent" and the fact that I use ma'am and sir. I constantly get people asking me what's the most authentic southern restaurant around
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Posted on 6/6/13 at 11:16 am to TlGERBLOOD
Agreed.
There's a whole lot of "country" folk in Missouri. I won't try to tell anyone that we're Southern. Although I'd suggest anything below I-44 is more Southern than it's not.
There's a whole lot of "country" folk in Missouri. I won't try to tell anyone that we're Southern. Although I'd suggest anything below I-44 is more Southern than it's not.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 9:45 pm to TlGERBLOOD
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This. Completely.
I moved down to Biloxi during HS, and constantly I would be referred to as a Yankee. By the same token, I went up to NY for grad school, and people instantly call me southern because of my "accent" and the fact that I use ma'am and sir. I constantly get people asking me what's the most authentic southern restaurant around
In fairness, a lot of Mississippians think Memphis is Yankee land even though Memphis might as well be in Mississippi and is full of Mississippians.
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