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View Poll Results: How "Southern" is Kansas City?
Significantly more Midwestern than Southern 80 71.43%
Moderately more Midwestern than Southern 21 18.75%
Moderately more Southern than Midwestern 2 1.79%
Significantly more Southern than Midwestern 1 0.89%
About equally Midwestern and Southern 8 7.14%
Voters: 112. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-21-2019, 07:57 PM
 
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St. Louis isn't Southern at all. Slavery was present in KC too. And KC had Blues music. St. Louis architecture isn't Southern at all. Chicago had blues music as did Detroit. Are you going to call those places Southern? st. Louis culture isn't Southern either. Not all places that had slavery were Southern. And if anything, KC is more Southern than St. Louis ever was.
I feel St Louis was far more a segregated city like those of the south than Kansas City and I see more similarities between Memphis and St Louis than Chicago and St Louis. River, closeness, segregation, blues music, etc.
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Old 10-22-2019, 03:53 PM
 
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I feel St Louis was far more a segregated city like those of the south than Kansas City and I see more similarities between Memphis and St Louis than Chicago and St Louis. River, closeness, segregation, blues music, etc.
River has nothing to do with it. Both Kansas City and St. Louis had segregation, and St. Louis has virtually nothing in common with Memphis demographically, culturally, linguistically, politically, etc. St. Louis inherited the blues jazz and bbq from the South as did Chicago. St. Louis is not a Southern city and it certainly isn’t more Southern than Kansas City. And Kansas City is on a river too. A river doesn’t make a place Southern. You need to seriously reevaluate what you think makes a place Southern because you aren’t right. You clearly aren’t listening to anything I’m saying anyway so I’m done arguing with you. Chicago and Detroit had blues music which migrated to them the same way it migrated to St. Louis. The blues aren’t native to St. Louis. If ur talking about modern segregation, all Midwestern cities are severely segregated. Southern ones actually aren’t anymore.
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Old 10-22-2019, 08:15 PM
 
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River has nothing to do with it. Both Kansas City and St. Louis had segregation, and St. Louis has virtually nothing in common with Memphis demographically, culturally, linguistically, politically, etc. St. Louis inherited the blues jazz and bbq from the South as did Chicago. St. Louis is not a Southern city and it certainly isn’t more Southern than Kansas City. And Kansas City is on a river too. A river doesn’t make a place Southern. You need to seriously reevaluate what you think makes a place Southern because you aren’t right. You clearly aren’t listening to anything I’m saying anyway so I’m done arguing with you. Chicago and Detroit had blues music which migrated to them the same way it migrated to St. Louis. The blues aren’t native to St. Louis. If ur talking about modern segregation, all Midwestern cities are severely segregated. Southern ones actually aren’t anymore.
I'm talking the might Mississippi River. St Louis, Memphis, New Orleans were/are your southern cities of the Mississippi. The Missouri was/is a more midwestern river, look at a map. St Louis was a horribly segregated city.
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Old 10-22-2019, 08:26 PM
 
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I'm talking the might Mississippi River. St Louis, Memphis, New Orleans were/are your southern cities of the Mississippi. The Missouri was/is a more midwestern river, look at a map. St Louis was a horribly segregated city.
And St. Louis is on the Missouri River. No it wasn’t incredibly segregated. KC is was just as segregated. St. Louis isn’t Southern. Period. St. Louis has more in common with Chicago and Minneapolis today than it does with Memphis and New Orleans. In fact from a modern standpoint St. Louis is nothing in common with those two cities. As a St. Louis native I can tell you your perceptions about our city are flat out wrong. But If you want to live in your world of make believe, be my guest. St. Louis has never been more Southern than Kansas City in any way, shape or form. Period. You are continuing to back yourself further and further into a corner. Have you looked at a map of the Mississippi it extends into Minnesota. How is that a Southern River? I think I’ve proven my point here. If you don’t like facts, I’m not wasting my time on you.

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Old 10-23-2019, 01:06 AM
 
Location: KCMO, North
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Could you please not waste your time on any of us?
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Old 10-23-2019, 06:38 AM
 
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Could you please not waste your time on any of us?
Don’t like facts either? Then don’t speak.
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Old 10-23-2019, 04:20 PM
 
Location: KCMO, North
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Please provide links to your "facts". Just spurting crap from your mouth, and not providing proof, isn't a fact.

Here I'll show you a fact. Starting a thread and then not backing it up with data to prove your point, is divisive and juvenile.
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Old 10-23-2019, 06:02 PM
 
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Please provide links to your "facts". Just spurting crap from your mouth, and not providing proof, isn't a fact.

Here I'll show you a fact. Starting a thread and then not backing it up with data to prove your point, is divisive and juvenile.
Look it up yourself. I’m not doing your dirty work especially when you treat me like that. Nothing I’m spurting is crap. St. Louis is linguistically outside of the Southern dialect, is German American and Irish American majority, politically votes Democratic in the city and county, and is architecturally and industrially Midwestern. Memphis is none of these things. Anyone with a brain knows this stuff. New Orleans is Catholic but is otherwise Southern in every other area. Hit the road Jack.
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Old 10-23-2019, 06:04 PM
 
Location: KCMO, North
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Hehehe
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Old 10-23-2019, 07:59 PM
 
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The last I have to say on this of St Louis and KC, is that St Louis Democrat voting history is tied to the Dixie South which was Democrat and there's something, which I haven't taken the time to look up, about the Mississippi River being deeper from the conjunction of the MO and MS Rivers south to the Gulf of Mexico and shallower north of that conjunction to MN where it begins and St Louis was strategically located where riverboats coming up from the south could transfer cargo/etc on to riverboats going further north to MN or on to the MO river. In my humble opinion I feel St Louis has more in history and ties with the south than KC.
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