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Old 02-12-2013, 07:17 AM
 
Location: MO
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I am curious what part of southwest Missouri you visited, and if you have ever been to the Branson area? I consider this area to be more "southern" than Bentonville or Rogers. Also to answer your question about sweet tea, you can get it in any part of southwest Missouri I have been in....including springfield.
I agree with you. Bentonville and Rogers both have grown like crazy lately, and many midwesterners live there.
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Old 02-12-2013, 08:10 AM
 
Location: St. Louis
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Nope, I don't think of the whole Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers/Bentonville area as Southern at all. It's got a completely different feel to it than the rest of AR and SW MO. That might be because hardly anybody who lives there these days is actually from there.
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Old 02-12-2013, 08:55 AM
 
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That's what I'm saying, Bentonville/Rogers are not southern to me at all, and I think it's influenced the south western part of the state to not be (or at least seem) southern. I think you have to go east of the 71 corridor to get into dixie land.

How far east I'm not sure, probably somewhere between 71 and Springfield/Branson is where it starts though.


And the "sweet tea test" is to ask for tea, and see if they automatically bring you sweet tea or ask if you want unsweetened.
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:44 PM
 
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THB's map is right on for SE Missouri.

Far Southwestern MO, NW AR is different feel. It leans southern, but not totally southern due to being close to Kansas and far NE OK. I would certainly call is southern before Midwestern.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:02 PM
 
Location: SW Missouri
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onegoal - please let me give you a clue on how it has become so easy for some of us to pick you out of a crowd without having the moderators access to your IP address.

If someone opens up a new account and jumps feet first into a conversation about Missouri being a southern state - or starts another thread about this well beaten topic - and their handle has something to do with a Mustang, the Blues, a Confederate name, or has Missouri or the initials of our fair state in it - they are immediately suspect.

I tell you this only because your sneaking onto the board is really not a challenge anymore and for selfish reasons, I wanted to give you a few clues to make the hunt 'more interesting' in the future.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:08 PM
 
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onegoal - please let me give you a clue on how it has become so easy for some of us to pick you out of a crowd without having the moderators access to your IP address.

If someone opens up a new account and jumps feet first into a conversation about Missouri being a southern state - or starts another thread about this well beaten topic - and their handle has something to do with a Mustang, the Blues, a Confederate name, or has Missouri or the initials of our fair state in it - they are immediately suspect.

I tell you this only because your sneaking onto the board is really not a challenge anymore and for selfish reasons, I wanted to give you a few clues to make the hunt 'more interesting' in the future.
I'm not breaking any rules though. There is no reason to ban me. I'm following the rules.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:14 PM
 
Location: MO
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I'm not breaking any rules though. There is no reason to ban me. I'm following the rules.
You have a duplicate account. That is a violation of the rules. Be gone.
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Old 02-12-2013, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Branson, Missouri
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That's what I'm saying, Bentonville/Rogers are not southern to me at all, and I think it's influenced the south western part of the state to not be (or at least seem) southern. I think you have to go east of the 71 corridor to get into dixie land.

How far east I'm not sure, probably somewhere between 71 and Springfield/Branson is where it starts though.


And the "sweet tea test" is to ask for tea, and see if they automatically bring you sweet tea or ask if you want unsweetened.
I am going to have to disagree with you. How many times have you been to northwest ark/southwest mo? I will tell you yes bentonville/rogers are less southern....but there are still many people from other parts of Arkansas that move into these places. The UofA is in Fayetteville, and kids that go there are GENERALLY from Arkansas, so that has a big influence on the Fayetteville area. Also as soon as you get out of the Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers area, everything is completely southern. I invite you to visit places like Berryville,Arkansas(pronounced by locals as Burvul), Noel, Missouri or even Pea Ridge, Arkansas. All of these are fairly close to the nwa metro and very southern. Neosho, Missouri is in between Joplin and Bentonville, and is very southern as well. Btw hear is an example of a few different local kids from right outside the NWA metro area...I believe they are in Pea Ridge which is about 30 mins at most from the metro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOf1G..._za_Yw&index=6
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Old 02-12-2013, 02:53 PM
 
Location: Little Rock, AR
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The author is off his rocker, but after the 20th try or so I agree he got pretty close with the southern line.

I only did this for Southeast Missouri because it is the only area I am claiming to have any expertise with. The Black line is where I consider the north/south line to be, although it isn't absolute. The Yellow line is where I define the Missouri bootheel to begin.
I totally agree with GunnerTHB's Missouri map. I think it is the most accurate one I've ever seen out of all in Missouri threads.
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Old 02-12-2013, 02:56 PM
 
Location: 32°19'03.7"N 106°43'55.9"W
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My family is from a small town called Ellington, and it's about on this line. They seem pretty southern to me there, and I lived in Georgia and Northern Florida before so I'm pretty used to Southerners.
Wow do I agree with your Ellington observation. I mentioned this in another thread once, and it involves another town on the Current and Jacks Fork, which is Eminence. I felt as though this town was distinctly southern, but by the time you reach Salem, 40 miles north, you feel as though you've made a complete transformation into the Midwest.

The one town that appears to be in the midwest, via the map, but feels southern to me, is Potosi, which is north of Ellington. I have no idea why this town specifically does not feel midwestern to me, but it doesn't.
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