Is Oklahoma more similar to Kansas or Texas?

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Tulsa in the modern era is the Upper South/Ozarks. It is southern in latitude and climate, those are hard fixed attributes that don't change. I can remember visiting there in the summer one time and getting burned after thirty minutes outside. That just doesn't happen in areas further north in the Midwest.

Agreed. It's just not a perfect fit culturally to the area due to it's history.

[IowanFarmer]

Originally Posted by costellopresley82

Would you all say Tulsa is more Great Plains (akin to Kansas, Nebraska, etc.) or southern-influenced?

Oklahoma City seems like a Great Plains city akin to Fort Worth but I've only been there once, briefly.

I've spent plenty of time in Tulsa, and a lot of it was while I was living in Des Moines. They felt remarkably similar to each other. I would compare it to Omaha, Kansas City, Des Moines, Wichita more than I would pretty much any Southern city I've visited in the last 10 years (Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, Atlanta).

Once you get into the rural areas to the south and east of Tulsa, it felt much more like Arkansas.

I'm speaking from a cultural standpoint, and vibe of the city.

[IowanFarmer]

Originally Posted by manitopiaaa

As someone who lived in Oklahoma for 20 years:



Chickasaw Country is like N Texas
Frontier Country is like N Texas (aka the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex)
Great Plains Country is like N Texas
Green Country is like Arkansas
Choctaw Country is like SW Arkansas, NW Louisiana, NW Texas
Red Carpet Country is like the Texas Panhandle (but that rural industrial cowboy vibe of the Texas Panhandle has been moving north into KS, like Liberal)

There is no part of Oklahoma, except maybe the cities north of Enid and Ponca City, that really feel more like Kansas, so the poll results seem really wrong.

I've been through the Green Country a lot, and the areas along and north of I44 seem more like Missouri and Kansas than Arkansas.

South, around Tahlequah and the 412 corridor I would agree that it's more like Arkansas.

[eddie gein]

Just a note. The OP here has another thread showing NFL fandom across the country. As expected, despite the Chiefs recent success, almost the entire state of Oklahoma roots for Dallas. And they always have.

I don't... but it seems like everybody else does.