re: I don't get why everyone says MIZZOU doesn't fit in the SEC

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You're not southern. Period. Y'all aren't even Eastern. A state that has a City known as the "Gateway to the West" baby be in the southeast. I'm sorry, you just don't belong. And no about of justifying your role during the Civil War can change that.

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OK. But we're SEC, baby!

And Missouri was initially settled by the French, the oldest towns generally have French names - St. Louis, St. Charles, Cape Girardeau, Ste. Genevieve, etc. Then the early settlers were from Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama - primarily Scots-Irish. The "Little Dixie" area along the Missouri River was mostly settled by people from Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia.