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re: What are your geographic boundaries for the South?
Posted on 11/13/19 at 1:55 pm to ExtraSpecial
Posted on 11/13/19 at 1:55 pm to ExtraSpecial
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I think we can cross off any parts of Missouri
At a bare minimum, the bootheel of Missouri is 100% Southern. You can argue the rest of the southern portion of the state/Ozarks, but the bootheel is definitely the South.
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Posted on 11/13/19 at 4:22 pm to KCM0Tiger
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At a bare minimum, the bootheel of Missouri is 100% Southern
Having been there, I would agree. I tried to minimize severing certain states to include them in the South (you notice I only chopped off FL and VA.)
Do some Missourians call themselves Southerners? The residents of KC and STL are steadfast Midwesterners, as are those in Columbia, but how about towns like Branson and Cape Girardeau?
This post was edited on 11/13/19 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 12/4/19 at 2:24 pm to KCM0Tiger
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the bootheel of Missouri is 100% Southern
As a native I can say that you are 100% correct.
I also lived in Alexandria, Virginia, for 14 years. There are small pockets of Southerners in Alexandria, but thanks in large to the Northerners who moved in it is as Yankee as can be.
Another interesting place is Cairo, Illinois. Fifty years ago Cairo was every bit as Southern as Selma, Alabama.
ETA: The oldest Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter in continuous existence is Sterling Price Camp No. 145 in St. Louis. It even predates Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp No. 215 in Memphis.
This post was edited on 12/4/19 at 2:35 pm
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