Missouri...Southern or Midwestern?

[Versatile]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

You posted the exact same post in another thread.......we got it the first time!

And without any punctuation at all. I thought i was the world's worst! lol Now there maybe hope for me.

Not laughing at you at all. Just laughing with you.

[krock1dk]

Originally Posted by ajf131

And since the U.S. Census Bureau considers Missouri Midwest, I think that pretty much confims it. Also, politically Missouri has a history of being a swing state like Indiana and Ohio. Political attitudes in these three states are fairly similar.

Indiana is NOT a swing state. It has been overwhelmingly Republican since 1964, when it last supported a Democrat (LBJ) in the Presidential race. Even though Obama won Indiana by just 800 votes (winning in the inner-city of Indianapolis) this time, Indiana is in no way a swing state. Sorry, but Republicans are pretty solid here. But OH is definately a swing state.

[krock1dk]

As a native Midwesterner myself (indiana), I always consider Missouri a Midwest state. Most of the population lives in the Midwest markets of St. Louis and Kansas City. However, I can understand the 'southern' identification being a slave state, Branson now being now the place to be for country music, the Ozarks Mts. and the like. Missouri isnt alone in its identity crisis, however. Texas doesnt seem to know wheather its southern or southwestern, and Virginia doesnt know wheather its southern or eastern.

[ArkIll]

Oklahoma shares Texas's identity problem.