Is NWA in the midwest or south?

[73-79 ford fan]

Not sure why this is so difficult. Arkansas and the northwest part of the state is in the southeast United States. Missouri is in the midwest. There are five geographical regions of the United States and the state borders form the borders of these five regions which has absolutely nothing to do with culture. Pineville Missouri is in the midwest, Bentonville Arkansas is in the southeast and Grove Oklahoma is in the southwest part of the country.

[thegreenflute334]

Originally Posted by 73-79 ford fan

Not sure why this is so difficult. Arkansas and the northwest part of the state is in the southeast United States. Missouri is in the midwest. There are five geographical regions of the United States and the state borders form the borders of these five regions which has absolutely nothing to do with culture. Pineville Missouri is in the midwest, Bentonville Arkansas is in the southeast and Grove Oklahoma is in the southwest part of the country.

Bentonville,AR is 30 minutes away from Pineville and Pineville, MO is midwest. Southeast OK is 45 minutes from AR 412 west.. NWA is on the border.. so this conversation could go on for a lifetime. Strategically, if there were several miles involved, I could see the argument.

Kansas City is three hours away and Little Rock is three hours away

[MOKAN]

Originally Posted by thegreenflute334

Bentonville,AR is 30 minutes away from Pineville and Pineville, MO is midwest. Southeast OK is 45 minutes from AR 412 west.. NWA is on the border.. so this conversation could go on for a lifetime. Strategically, if there were several miles involved, I could see the argument.

Kansas City is three hours away and Little Rock is three hours away

Arkansas is a Southern state, fully in the South. However, the South tapers (fades) out into surrounding, not-completely-Southern states. That's not difficult to understand. It can be visualized on maps of both religious and ancestral patterns. There is no black and white line where the South itself ends, but there are certainly state lines at which fully Southern states end. Arkansas is fully Southern, for example, while Missouri and Oklahoma are not but have strong Southern influences. The conversation doesn't have to go on for a lifetime, because it's not really that difficult to understand. Pineville is within an area of Missouri that has a strong Southern influence. That influence can be seen in the stats provided by the very website that this forum is a part of, if you know what to look for. Nobody would mistake Pineville as a typical Midwestern town. The biggest indicators are that the largest religion is SOUTHERN Baptist and the largest ancestry is American, which is a Southern characteristic.

//www.city-data.com/city/Pineville-Missouri.html

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

What difference does it make if somebody thinks NWA is in the Midwest or somebody else thinks it's in the South? It's l still the same place. It's still NWA, the SW area of the Ozarks. The culture is not gonna change no matter what region its considered to be in. As far as im concerned, South Central and Southwest Missouri, North Central and NW Arkansas, an NE Oklahoma are a region all to their own and could very well be their own state..... It's sorta the Mid-America version of the Southern Apalchia areas of SE Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern KY and East TN, the state of West Virginia, Western North Carolina, and the SW part of the state of Virginia. All one region but categorized in 3 different regions, They share a region and a culture that is more similar to one another than they are to the states and regions they are officially a part of.

[Sam I Am]

This USED to be a red hot mess. Now it's just locked.