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re: Missouri is a partially Southern state
Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:27 am to bayou2003
Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:27 am to bayou2003
Missouri is indeed overall a Midwestern state. My original point though, is that while as a whole Missouri is classified as Midwestern, there is a decent portion which is Southern and not Midwestern. I myself identify as a Midwesterner, although I take exception to being called a "Yankee" due to my family's Missouri Confederate roots.
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Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:32 am to KCM0Tiger
I'm from the midwest. Born in Illinois, raised in Missouri and Illinois, and my family immigrated to the portion of the country that allowed them to become successful and contributing Americans working with the other less preferred minorities at the time instead of yokel arse baccy chewing southerners bragging about their bacon wrapped deep fried butter sticks covered in turkey neck sauce.
If that makes me a yankee, so be it. There's a lot more like me than the opposite in the portion of the country from which I hail.
If that makes me a yankee, so be it. There's a lot more like me than the opposite in the portion of the country from which I hail.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:39 am to KCM0Tiger
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Missouri is indeed overall a Midwestern state. My original point though, is that while as a whole Missouri is classified as Midwestern, there is a decent portion which is Southern and not Midwestern. I myself identify as a Midwesterner, although I take exception to being called a "Yankee" due to my family's Missouri Confederate roots.
Having a Confederate heritage isn't the same though. 90+ percent of East Tennessee was pro Union, counties in N. Ga and N. Alabama were also strongly pro-Union. Plenty of Northerners supported the Confederacy and at the individual county level families were split on the issue both in the North and South.
The simplistic notion of a pro-Union North and the pro-Confederate South was a fairy tale both regions told themselves post-war. Now the majority of people in the North and South believe it but it's always been a myth.
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