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Old 01-16-2015, 09:44 AM
 
Location: Windsor Ontario/Colchester Ontario
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I was wondering if any parts of Kansas have any southern feeling to them, or is it solidly Midwestern? It extends almost as far south as southern Missouri, which is pretty southern, so that's what made me wonder, plus, I have never been to Kansas.
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Old 01-16-2015, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Aurora, CO
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I was wondering if any parts of Kansas have any southern feeling to them, or is it solidly Midwestern? It extends almost as far south as southern Missouri, which is pretty southern, so that's what made me wonder, plus, I have never been to Kansas.
I have not been to the far southeastern part of Kansas so I can't tell you if that area has a southern feel, but the rest of the state does not.
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Old 01-16-2015, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Windsor Ontario/Colchester Ontario
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I figured if it does at all, it would be in the southeastern part of the state.
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Old 01-16-2015, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Arvada, CO
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I was wondering if any parts of Kansas have any southern feeling to them, or is it solidly Midwestern? It extends almost as far south as southern Missouri, which is pretty southern, so that's what made me wonder, plus, I have never been to Kansas.
I've never been to the South-proper, but I did spend a few days in SE Kansas (Wilson County) last summer. Arkansas is only about 3 hours away from there.

I'm not sure that part of Kansas would be considered "southern feeling", but it was pretty darn close to what I'd imagine parts of the South would be like, culturally (socially conservative, church very important, a lot of state pride). Wilson County was also a dry county until 1998 (you would have never guessed now ). The people were great.

Western Kansas doesn't feel southern at all, but I don't find anything along or east of I-135 to be particularly Midwestern either (for example, it feels much more southern than Nebraska, or anything near the Great Lakes). I wouldn't think a Southerner would feel extremely out of place in the eastern half of Kansas, but I could be completely wrong.
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Old 01-16-2015, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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Wichita is more like Oklahoma City than Kansas City imo. No part of Kansas is Southern in the Georgia/South Carolina sense, but there is plenty of Central-Southern influence from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas. It's not really anything like most of the Midwest either. The states it's most similar to are Oklahoma and Nebraska.
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Old 01-16-2015, 12:30 PM
 
Location: Branson, Missouri
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I would say a county or two in the far southeastern part of the state has some ozarkian/southern influence. Especially Cherokee county. It pulls most influence from joplin mo and Miami Oklahoma. Lots of people in those far s.e. Counties even consider themselves to be part of the Ozarks....I personally don't think they are.
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Old 01-16-2015, 12:40 PM
 
Location: Branson, Missouri
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Here is a good representation of how the accent is in far southeast Kansas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6vMewXQcU
What do you think? It's hard for me to judge since I have a southern accent...does this lady have an accent???
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Old 01-16-2015, 01:21 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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Here is a good representation of how the accent is in far southeast Kansas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6vMewXQcU
What do you think? It's hard for me to judge since I have a southern accent...does this lady have an accent???
Pretty similar to some accents I've heard in West Virginia. I wouldn't say it's pure southern, but it's definitely more than a bit southern influenced.
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Old 01-16-2015, 08:59 PM
 
Location: Floyd County, IN
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Here is a good representation of how the accent is in far southeast Kansas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6vMewXQcU
What do you think? It's hard for me to judge since I have a southern accent...does this lady have an accent???
Yes, it most certainly is an upland southern accent, very similar to what you would find in southern Missouri, or parts of Kentucky.
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Old 01-16-2015, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Who Cares, USA
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Here is a good representation of how the accent is in far southeast Kansas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6vMewXQcU
What do you think? It's hard for me to judge since I have a southern accent...does this lady have an accent???
Sounds Southern to me. Just not thick-Southern. I've been to Kansas and heard thicker accents than that, though it's not the norm.

I'd say that Southern Kansas has traces of Southern culture, though it's definitely the far edge of where said culture will be experienced. It peters out pretty quickly once you get North of Wichita into Plains-Midwestern.
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