re: Texas is a southern (mostly) state. Oklahoma is not.

Well hello there neighbor how do you do
There's something I'd like to say to you
Now you're from my homeland my sunny homeland
Could it be yeah well alright
Are you from Dixie you're from Dixie
Well this old boy he's from Dixie too
Ha ha listen are you from Dixie I said from Dixie
Where all them fields of cotton Lord beckon to me
Well I say it's be nice to see you baby
And all the friends back home I long to see
Well if you're from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline
Anyplace below that Mason Dixon line
Then you're from Dixie hurray for Dixie
Cause this old boy he's from Dixie too
Well if you're from Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Virginia Tennessee or Caroline
Anyplace below that Mason Dixon line
Then you're from Dixie hurray hurray for Dixie
Cause this old boy he's from Dixie too

Texas has more of a right to be associated with the Deep South than Oklahoma.

Agree but there is a LOT of TX beyond the Piney Woods.

Of all the "non-Southern" states, Oklahoma and Texas probably share the most characteristics with the South. And that makes sense as most of the white settlers of Oklahoma and Texas came from the South - especially the non-English populations (Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, etc).

My interactions with Oklahomans through the years always felt like I was talking with Appalachian people that I knew. Texas was settled by all manner of folks, but it has Southern heritage (old South) and the backwoods Southern heritage (Scotch Irish, Scottish, German, etc) along with those who came directly from Germany. Of course, they also have very unique parts that make then different - Texas with the Spanish influence, Oklahoma with the Native Americans and both of them with parts of their state bordering places like New Mexico and Colorado and different geography.

So, in the end, they are their own unique cultures, but they share a lot with us and are more "us" than really anywhere else that isn't considered "Southern" outside of maybe West Virginia and other parts of more Northern Appalachia (West Va, SE Ohio, Western PA).

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Want to know how I know you've never been east of I-45?

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That's a terrible argument.

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Oklahoma is more Southern than Texas in every measurable way other than geography.

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Thank you. Especially the eastern half of OK. Anyone ever heard Blake Shelton or Carrie Underwood talk? They are both from Eastern Oklahoma. It is definitely the South.

Texas is Texas.

Oklahoma is a Midwestern fly over state.

Neither are Southern and I’m going to fricking hate everyone trying to pass them off as such.

The SEC as a southern conference was mortally wounded in 2012 and this is just the final death rattle.

Oklahoma has red dirt.

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Thank you. Especially the eastern half of OK. Anyone ever heard Blake Shelton or Carrie Underwood talk? They are both from Eastern Oklahoma. It is definitely the South.

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Blake's from Kentucky. We just stole him. He does talk with the Okie accent though.

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You ain't lived there. You really don't know. Start some other bollshite topic.

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You’re not Southern either.