Northwest Ark. - More southern or Midwestern? (Little Rock, Fayetteville: living, cities)

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by hotair2

I am from Georgia and most people from Georgia that I have spoken to consider southern to extend to the mason dixon line and then west to the Mississippi, which would leave all of Arkansas out.

That would describe the Southeast.

[northbound74]

Originally Posted by hotair2

I am from Georgia and most people from Georgia that I have spoken to consider southern to extend to the mason dixon line and then west to the Mississippi, which would leave all of Arkansas out.

Yes, that would describe the southeast, but most consider Arkansas and Louisiana the south, or even southeast, as well. They were the south during the Civil War, and they are southern in every possible way.
Personally, I'll add Texas and Oklahoma to the list of southern states, although the western parts are less so.

[hognoxious]

Originally Posted by Dark Khan

Thoughts?

I live in Siloam Springs and I feel NWA is more southern than midwest but not to the extent of say, Louisiana, Alabama, or even southern Ark.

I'd say NWA is something like 60% southern/ 40% midwestern

Siloam Springs 'feels' different than Fayetteville which 'feels' different than Bentonville which 'feels' different than Eureka Springs ...

[m.melcher09]

Originally Posted by hotair2

I am from Georgia and most people from Georgia that I have spoken to consider southern to extend to the mason dixon line and then west to the Mississippi, which would leave all of Arkansas out.

hey have you ever been to arkansas come on even places like bella vista (which is about as northern as you can get in AR) is southern

[m.melcher09]

Originally Posted by nmnita

I think NWA is much more mid-western than Southern or maybe about 1/2 and 1/2. As for those from California re-locating here, they left Ca for a reason; most the reason was to get away from the Ca life style and return to mid America, both values and life style..

Nita

nwa is still in arkansas and arkansas is a southern state

[m.melcher09]

ever hered of atlanta its way bigger than probably all of nwa (population wise) and its considered southern and there are countless other major metropolotan cities below AR and they too are considered southern

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by m.melcher09

nwa is still in arkansas and arkansas is a southern state

I am more referring to attitude, accents, etc. Yes, from what we learned in school (200 years ago) AR is certainly a southen state. The same is true with Texas and OK, but depending on where you live in the state the attitude and feeling can be very different. If you visit or live in the northern most part of Ok or AR the feeling is much more mid western. If you live in say, El Paso the feeling is southwest versus living in Tyler Texas which is very southern. This is why in some of these areas it is hard to determine what is what.

Nita

[m.melcher09]

Originally Posted by nmnita

I am more referring to attitude, accents, etc. Yes, from what we learned in school (200 years ago) AR is certainly a southen state. The same is true with Texas and OK, but depending on where you live in the state the attitude and feeling can be very different. If you visit or live in the northern most part of Ok or AR the feeling is much more mid western. If you live in say, El Paso the feeling is southwest versus living in Tyler Texas which is very southern. This is why in some of these areas it is hard to determine what is what.

Nita

i live in NWA tho the lower half so i guess that maybe its just where i live but the area is redneak USA lol ive also hered some pretty southern accents in fayettville

[Bass&Catfish2008]

Definitely Southern.

[strumpeace]

Regionalism is dying. It's getting harder and harder to describe a place as solely 'Southern' or 'Midwestern'. Those descriptors don't work anymore. Rather, we have urban vs. rural. Huntsville AR, for example, may be in NWA near Fayetteville and Bentonville, but my experience in Huntsville is that it's much, much more like rural communities in south Georgia and Alabama than it is like Fayetteville.

In-migration into Southern cities is making it difficult to define cities purely in terms of geography. Southern rural areas, on the other hand, typically experience very little in-migration and often seem like relics from a time long past. (See Huntsville example.)