Missouri...Southern or Midwestern? (Kansas City, St. Louis: military, job, suburbs)

[cheryljo]

if anyone wants proof, visit Independence and see the Confederate Cemetary inside Woodlawn Cemetary. They even have an annual reinactment of a military funeral for the fallen confederate soldiers!

[MOHIllbillyWoman]

Originally Posted by cheryljo

if anyone wants proof, visit Independence and see the Confederate Cemetary inside Woodlawn Cemetary. They even have an annual reinactment of a military funeral for the fallen confederate soldiers!

Why does that bother you so much? Why does everyone seem to think that the South should have no right or not be able to honor their fallen soldiers? By the way, calling it a Civil War was wrong anyway since a civil war is warring factions against each other within the same country. Since the South has secceeded they were no long part of the country and therefore, was completely wrong calling it a civil war. It more properly should have been, and is being called by those of us who have studied it in greater detail, The War for Southern Independence or War of Northern Agression.

[missymomof3]

I think that they are in support of it not against it Northwoods.

[Northwoods Voyager]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

I think that they are in support of it not against it Northwoods.

I am a little confused here Of what post of mine are you referring???

I have been posting remarks about Sweet Tea and Lovely Southern accents.

[MOHIllbillyWoman]

Originally Posted by Northwoods Voyager

I am a little confused here Of what post of mine are you referring???

I believe that they were posting to me and just mistakenly used your name.

[Northwoods Voyager]

Originally Posted by MOHIllbillyWoman

I believe that they were posting to me and just mistakenly used your name.

Awww, ya gotta be kiddin me. Would have never thought of that Oh, well, here I thought I did something important for a change

[slahgirl]

According to Southern Living Magazine(the secular "Bible" of the South) the entire Southern half of Missouri is included in the "Upper South." However, having many friends who live in the South, they tell me anyone living above Arkansas, in definately considered a 'Yankee.' So, as much as I want to be called a Southerner, I am afraid we are dillusional in our hopes, we are most certainly...Midwesterners.

[Plains10]

Originally Posted by slahgirl

According to Southern Living Magazine(the secular "Bible" of the South) the entire Southern half of Missouri is included in the "Upper South." However, having many friends who live in the South, they tell me anyone living above Arkansas, in definately considered a 'Yankee.' So, as much as I want to be called a Southerner, I am afraid we are dillusional in our hopes, we are most certainly...Midwesterners.

Ha, that is funny. I have lived in the Upper Midwest before, and after I moved back near the KC metro area I realized that Missouri has strong southern influences that I did not notice before. Most of southern Missouri and southeast Missouri I would classify as being part of the upper South while areas further to the north have a mixture of southern influences along with the Ozark culture.

[Northwoods Voyager]

Originally Posted by slahgirl

According to Southern Living Magazine(the secular "Bible" of the South) the entire Southern half of Missouri is included in the "Upper South." However, having many friends who live in the South, they tell me anyone living above Arkansas, in definately considered a 'Yankee.' So, as much as I want to be called a Southerner, I am afraid we are dillusional in our hopes, we are most certainly...Midwesterners.

Guess this is why I like to say Missouri is a Southern Midwest state.

[mrm84107]

When I lived in Springfield ('60-'65) I don't remember it as being either Southern, my native culture, or Mid-Western, from which I moved to Missouri. It just felt like "home" from the beginning so maybe it was a blend of both.

Southwest Missouri was just part of the Ozarks, with Greene County being the only Republican county in the state. As far as we were concerned St. Louis was part of Illinois and Kansas City was considered Kansas.

We played in the Ozark Mountain Conference and considered the Ozark parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma to be part of our natural stompin' grounds, while St. Louis and Kansas City were foreign cities where the guys traveled to see the Cards and the gals went for back-to-school shopping trips to find different clothing and shoes from what was available in Springfield.

Springfield high school graduates who did not go to SMS or Drury were just as likely to become Razorbacks as to go to the University of Missouri. The Show Me state couldn't make its mind up what it was during the War, and still hadn't a hundred years later. From this thread it sounds like it still isn't sure.