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Old 06-18-2013, 09:46 PM
 
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Truman was not raised in the Independence, MO, area. He was raised on a farm Grandview, MO, and didn't move to Independence until he married Bess when he was 27 or 28. He perpetuated the myth of the "Man from Independence" because no one had heard of Grandview, MO. The family farmhouse in Grandview still stands and it's a museum. One his brothers lived there and farmed the land until he died in the '70s.
I know that. He lived in the same general region though, except when he was a baby he was born in Lamar which is in Southern MO.
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Old 06-18-2013, 10:00 PM
 
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Southerners say Missoura, Midwesterners Missouree.

People are now claiming Arkansas is in the Midwest.
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Old 06-18-2013, 10:08 PM
 
Location: Branson, Missouri
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Southerners say Missoura, Midwesterners Missouree.

People are now claiming Arkansas is in the Midwest.
LOL, that is not true at all. Its actually completely opposite from that the majority of the time. I don't know ANYONE from southern missouri that says "Missoura".
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Old 06-18-2013, 10:11 PM
 
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Southerners say Missoura, Midwesterners Missouree.

People are now claiming Arkansas is in the Midwest.
Arkansas is still in the south! Just like the southern quarter of Missouri is southern. Now far northwestern AR that is near far NE OK and not too far from KS I can see of having some minor Midwestern influences, just like how far far SW MO as we say too has some other influences in it but it's still more southern overall.

As I have said before. The Ozarks of Arkansas and the southern quarter of Missouri are southern! However they are not as southern as the deep south, or midsouth and the Delta regions of far southeast MO, AR or TN. They are upper southish.

They're still southern, but like a lighter version of southerness. Certainly they're not like Mississippi, or Georgia for example.

Maybe call it a southern lite. Like Diet Coke. Still coke though, but just a lighter version.

Same way with the Smokey mountains differ from the deep south, they're similar to AR and parts of the MO Ozarks as well and don't feel as southern as the lowlands and plantation culture.
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Old 06-19-2013, 06:53 AM
 
Location: MO
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LOL, that is not true at all. Its actually completely opposite from that the majority of the time. I don't know ANYONE from southern missouri that says "Missoura".
I don't know anyone in Southeast Missouri that says "Missoura" either.
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Old 06-19-2013, 10:50 AM
 
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I don't know anyone in Southeast Missouri that says "Missoura" either.
Same here. I hardly ever see anyone call MO "Missoura" same as when I lived in Florida everyone called it Missouri.

I wish I could live deep in the Bootheel THB. Then I'd be in Dixie and called a southerner.
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Old 06-19-2013, 11:23 AM
 
Location: SW Missouri
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I personally pronounce it with the -ee ending but know many older Missourian's that use the -uh sound. Never asked them if they thought they were Midwestern or Southener's and if I asked - they would probably start wondering if I had 'issues".

The New York Times wrote an article during the last election about how local and national politician's pronounced it - depending on who they were trying to impress at the time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/us...anted=all&_r=0

And for you college educated types that are interested, here is a study done on this very question - which didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

THE PRONUNCIATION OF MISSOURI:

I like the theory that RD quoted - that the availability of national media programming today compared to years past, is a primary reason for the homogenization of accents. This could explain why the youth of today might be more apt to pronounce it the way the rest of the country does.
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Old 06-19-2013, 01:56 PM
 
Location: MO
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Same here. I hardly ever see anyone call MO "Missoura" same as when I lived in Florida everyone called it Missouri.

I wish I could live deep in the Bootheel THB. Then I'd be in Dixie and called a southerner.
lol. No, you don't.
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Old 06-19-2013, 02:26 PM
 
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lol. No, you don't.
You're saying it's not a good place to live?
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Old 06-19-2013, 07:03 PM
 
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Kentuckian chiming in here... Just noticed none of y'all mention climate or flora and fauna being indicators of culture. After all we are products of our environments. Southern Missouri is a lot like Kentucky, in which you find cypress/tupelo swamps, southern species of plants, animals and southern crops. Also southern Missouri, like 99% of Kentucky is within the humid subtropical climate zone, whereas most of the Midwest is a humid continental climate.
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