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re: Missourians, what do you consider yourselves?
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:23 pm to koreandawg
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:23 pm to koreandawg
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Live in Missouri for 6 years. Never once heard anyone from there say they lived in the South or were a Southerner. Never once heard them refer to their cookin' as Southern cookin', etc. I think it's pretty obvious. I would hear "I like the way you talk. You must be from the South."
If the state didn't secede from the Union in the Civil war, then they are not Southern. That goes for Kentucky too. Doesn't mean they can't be in the SEC, but it means they aren't in what we call the "South". aka Dixieland.
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Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:31 pm to ClassicCityAlum
From the greater STL region. Midwestern.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:33 pm to ClassicCityAlum
Losers.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:43 pm to navynuke
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I'm an American.
I wouldn’t want to be considered “southern” either.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:47 pm to BoerneAg
Would "inbred meth-head carpet baggers" be accurate?
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:48 pm to BoerneAg
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I wouldn’t want to be considered “southern” either.
Exactly.
Losers who got their asses kicked by America, the lowest education & poverty rates, & incest
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:53 pm to BoerneAg
I lived in Georgia and South Carolina. They hunt deer with dogs. It's embarrassing.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 7:56 pm to ClassicCityAlum
Seems to me Northern people (like Minnesota, Wisconsin) call us Southerners and Southern people (like Louisiana, Mississippi) call us Northerner's.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:24 pm to MizBob
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Seems to me Northern people (like Minnesota, Wisconsin) call us Southerners and Southern people (like Louisiana, Mississippi) call us Northerner's.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:31 pm to ClassicCityAlum
I'm from the bootheel of Missouri. 100 from Memphis. 200 from St. Louis. Definitely a southern redneck. Don't go back there much though.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:55 pm to TNTigerman
quote:every state has rednecks. They just speak with different accents.
redneck
Missouri is quite literally the gateway to the West.
I lived in the KCMO area for ~4 yrs. Lots of cool spots in KC, STL, and the ozarks. But, outside of a lot of Confederate flag flying rural areas and an inordinate amount of racial tension, it never seemed southern by any cultural norms.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:57 pm to ClassicCityAlum
Methwestern
Posted on 8/17/19 at 8:57 pm to Che Boludo
The state is mostly "midwestern" but the bottom part of the state is definitely "southern".
Posted on 8/17/19 at 9:06 pm to TNTigerman
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I'm from the bootheel of Missouri. 100 from Memphis. 200 from St. Louis. Definitely a southern redneck. Don't go back there much though.
The bootheel is definitely 100% bonafide Southern, no doubt about it. You can debate the rest of the state, but the bootheel is undoubtedly the South.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 9:11 pm to ClassicCityAlum
The only people who think Missouri is Southern are Yankees. Having been here a while, it is admittedly hard to classify but closest to midwestern.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 9:17 pm to STLDawg
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Having been here a while, it is admittedly hard to classify but closest to midwestern.
Agreed. Missouri is just “Missouri” and not really northern, southern, eastern, or western. It’s literally the center of the country where everything transitions.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 9:17 pm to bcoop199
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The state is mostly "midwestern" but the bottom part of the state is definitely "southern".
First, those aren't my downvotes.
There certainly is some southern influence. Probably very close to the ~55:20 union to confederate support provided to the Armies in the Civil War.
That said, SE Missouri from Cape Girardeau down the MS is arguably most southern in culture. The Ozarks moving just West of there to the SW toward the Arky-OK borders get progressively more Hillbilly-like than traditional Southern culture.
Imo.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 9:27 pm to Griffindawg
Georgia will forever be Sherman's Bitch.
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 9:35 pm to Che Boludo
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every state has rednecks. They just speak with different accents.
Correct. In St. Louis, we call them hoosiers.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 9:38 pm to McMillan
One of the biggest factors leading up to the Civil War was if the newer states like Missouri were to be slave states. They used to debate which area Missouri belonged to. Now both North and South deny them. 
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