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jimmyjohnwilson-- thank you for your contributions to this discussion. unfortunately our friend geechie has already admitted that he is suffering from boredom. he will never acknowledge anything that is inconsistent with his own preconceptions.
jimmyjohnwilson-- thank you for your contributions to this discussion. unfortunately our friend geechie has already admitted that he is suffering from boredom. he will never acknowledge anything that is inconsistent with his own preconceptions.
I would like to add my thanks as well.
His posts are well thought out, insightful, and I love the maps!
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. Missouri's distribution of German population is nearly identical to that of IN and IL. thats why i brought it up, i was assuming you would make that observation yourself, but you have tended to be very selective with what you notice here.
i didnt bring texas up because it is not part of the upper south, the region we are claiming missouri to be a part of. Texas has a very unique cultural history infulenced by mexico, germany, spain, the deep south and the upper south. thats another topic altogether.
Indiana (esp) but also Illinois (their Charleston has a thicker Southern accent (Upland) than my Charleston does) are also areas of Southern Cultural influence- like Missouri.
Texas is also included in the 'Southern Border' region (along with Mo, Okla, and others) in the site I introduced earlier.
Muwahahahaha.....I'm an interior designer, right now I am working on a project in my hometown, rehabbing an historic hotel. I can do that right on the internet as they are in gut phase, I'll be going to the other farm for hands on work in the hotel in 2 weeks.
Got my design work done for the day about noon, I have been cleaning my house for company this weekend, I did 3 loads of laundry, cooked a meal, gabbed on Face Book and the phone, and never missed a beat.
Women are multi-taskers, you know.......
Notice that nearly every single rural Missouri county is on this list. This correlates with a low level of educational attainment, poor levels of job growth, low levels of out-migration, and other factors. This mirrors the demographic data for other upland South areas south of the Mason Dixon line.
The outliers are the micropolitan recreation/resort counties, the Mississippi river counties south of St. Louis, and some counties in northern Missouri.
Notice the "Little Dixie" region of northern Missouri that received next to no German settlement in the mid to late 1800s. This is also a higher poverty, low educational attainment, and poor levels of job growth as well. The same is also the case in the southern tier counties of Iowa which received very few German immigrants during that same time period.
The only reason that some northern Missouri counties fared slightly better is due to higher agricultural cultivation and productivity.
jimmyjohnwilson-- thank you for your contributions to this discussion. unfortunately our friend geechie has already admitted that he is suffering from boredom. he will never acknowledge anything that is inconsistent with his own preconceptions.
religiously, sure (not st. louis though). geographically and officially-- there is no such thing as "southern crossroads." missouri is classified by the united states government as a midwestern state. it is classified by geechie as a southern state. who's more credible?
Notice that nearly every single rural Missouri county is on this list. This correlates with a low level of educational attainment, poor levels of job growth, low levels of out-migration, and other factors. This mirrors the demographic data for other upland South areas south of the Mason Dixon line.
The outliers are the micropolitan recreation/resort counties, the Mississippi river counties south of St. Louis, and some counties in northern Missouri.
Notice the "Little Dixie" region of northern Missouri that received next to no German settlement in the mid to late 1800s. This is also a higher poverty, low educational attainment, and poor levels of job growth as well. The same is also the case in the southern tier counties of Iowa which received very few German immigrants during that same time period.
The only reason that some northern Missouri counties fared slightly better is due to higher agricultural cultivation and productivity.
not sure if you saw it, but i posted a map that confirms all of what you wrote here.
religiously, sure (not st. louis though). geographically and officially-- there is no such thing as "southern crossroads." missouri is classified by the united states government as a midwestern state. it is classified by geechie as a southern state. who's more credible?
As I stated before the Fed Reserve lumps S.C. in with Maryland, not Georgia.
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