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re: Went to St. Louis This Weekend
Posted on 7/11/22 at 6:53 pm to NaturalStateReb
Posted on 7/11/22 at 6:53 pm to NaturalStateReb
Ole Miss has done a great job recruiting the dumber students in the St Louis area. I recently had a cousin who couldn’t get into Mizzou but was a great student at Ole Miss. Take it how you want, but it’s true.
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Posted on 7/11/22 at 7:17 pm to Hbombtiger
When it comes to SEMO especially, Ole Miss and State are closer or right at the same drive time as Columbia is from the Bootheel. Cold, liberal Mizzou or warm, conservative Mississippi State? It was a no brainer for me. However as far as the state goes I-44 south is pretty southern or the Missouri River south. Ozarks are very similar to Middle Tennessee or Northern Arkansas. The Bootheel is a completely different world from the rest of the state and is in line with the Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana delta area where it’s nothing but flat farm ground and cotton, rice, beans and corn are king.
Posted on 7/11/22 at 7:24 pm to NaturalStateReb
Went up there for the first Big 12 Championship in '96. We beat Nebraska in the TWA Dome in what seemed like a home game for the Huskers. Don't know if they still travel as well since they've been down, but I was impressed by the number of Nebraska fans.
Hook'em
Hook'em
Posted on 7/11/22 at 8:29 pm to Rhio
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They like to think they are in the South though
I’ve lived here for 25 years and I don’t know anyone who likes to think we are southern. We are midwestern.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:51 pm to Mr. Blutarski
St. Louis is more of a Big Ten type city. Anyone who has lived there has always known this.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 8:52 pm to NaturalStateReb
I visited back in June and had similar takes.
Deff not the South, and most of St. Louis is sketchy.
Was nice to experience a place where baseball was #1.
Football dominates the south, even with all the great baseball programs the SEC has
Deff not the South, and most of St. Louis is sketchy.
Was nice to experience a place where baseball was #1.
Football dominates the south, even with all the great baseball programs the SEC has
Posted on 7/12/22 at 8:54 pm to Mr. Blutarski
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Poplar Bluff
AKA My hometown and GOAT place to grow up in SE MO.
My earliest childhood memories will forever reside there
Posted on 7/12/22 at 11:38 pm to mizslu314
I don't think people realize how large an area the Cardinals pull fans from and they are all willing to travel.
We went to a Wednesday night game a couple of weeks ago and sat next to a family from Waynesboro TN, and they said they were fans because they like following players from the AAA team in Memphis.
We went to a Wednesday night game a couple of weeks ago and sat next to a family from Waynesboro TN, and they said they were fans because they like following players from the AAA team in Memphis.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 7:46 am to AtchafalayaRoute
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and most of St. Louis is sketchy.
You mean, just the downtown?
Posted on 7/13/22 at 9:13 am to NaturalStateReb
Nobody ever said STL was the South 
The South begins in Cape Girardeau.
The South begins in Cape Girardeau.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 9:34 am to AtchafalayaRoute
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Deff not the South, and most of St. Louis is sketchy
Depends if you are talking about St. Louis CITY or the metropolitan area.
St. Louis has a rather unique situation in that the City and the County are separate entities. St. Louis CITY has a population of slightly less than 300k. The metropolitan area sans the city is around 2.5M. When you see crime stats about St. Louis it’s usually limited to the urban area of 300k.
The St. Louis area in general is quite safe if you know where to hang and where not to go. I’ve lived in the area all my life from apartment buildings to eventually a nice house and have never experienced so much as a car break in. I’m out to restaurants and bars in both the City and County quite a bit and also a Cardinal season ticket holder (so regularly in the City). No problems.
I spent 12 months on an assignment years ago in Houston and was robbed at gunpoint in my driveway in a “nice” part of town in the first couple of months I was there. Gotta know your surroundings.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 9:52 am to NaturalStateReb
St Louis is not great not terrible. Not hard to enjoy a weekend there, but anyone who acts like it’s an incredible place to live is someone who grew up there
Posted on 7/13/22 at 11:30 am to KCM0Tiger
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The South begins in Cape Girardeau.
Na I’d say Cape G is where the South ends, I think it begins in Sikeston.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 1:09 pm to NewZou
IMO, anything below I70 is the South
Posted on 7/13/22 at 2:40 pm to NaturalStateReb
You must have never traveled to Kentucky then.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 2:42 pm to Hback
It was even worse before the grass was put in.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 2:45 pm to Mr. Blutarski
I used to work there. I'm thinking about going back.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 5:01 pm to SouthernHog
Nailed it. There's a line fairly close to I-70, where you go from plains to bluffs. That's the end of where the glaciers scoured, and it is true that the terrain shapes the people. Plains people north of the bluffs, hill people below.
Posted on 7/13/22 at 5:04 pm to NaturalStateReb
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Decent food town. Downtown smelled consistently like weed.
Funny, I just returned from a trip down in NOLA. That town consistently smelled like weed too. Wonder what the common denominator is?
Posted on 7/13/22 at 5:45 pm to NaturalStateReb
When I lived in St. Louis, I use to catch Bama games at Ozzy Smith's bar and restaurant. There was always a decent little crowd of Bama faithful.
Other than that, they were fairly neutral on college football. Then again, they had the Rams at that time too. Basically, it is a baseball and beer town. Always will be.
The Cards and Bud.
Other than that, they were fairly neutral on college football. Then again, they had the Rams at that time too. Basically, it is a baseball and beer town. Always will be.
The Cards and Bud.
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