re: What are your geographic boundaries for the South?

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the bootheel of Missouri is 100% Southern

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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.