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My personal answer to this question is Florida. It's a lot like the South, but Central and South Florida (moreso the latter) are so incredibly different from the rest of the South. It's very hard to put Florida into a box.
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Oklahoma, I guess.
Florida's southern to me. The black population in South Florida, even if Haitian, still is predominantly southern culture to me (style of dress, cars, music, accent [sound very similar to New Orleans, Savannah, and Charleston blacks])
Even up into Central Florida, many of the whites that arent transplants are your average deep southerners
So Florida is still southern culturally, just not as much as say Alabama or Mississippi due to transplants, it's location and urban areas. But I don't think that can be used as a reason to say Florida isn't southern because couldn't a similar argument be used to say Atlanta, Charlotte, and Raleigh "aren't southern"
Some states belong to MULTIPLE regions at the same time, or could be split down the middle. We just like to establish simplistic regions for convenience.
Based on the number of arguments on here I would say Texas. 33% say it's southern, 33% say it's southwestern, 33% say it's it own thing and 1% will say crazy stuff like Midwestern.
DC is not a state but it it was that would be another good answer. Other border states such as Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Colorado are all good answers imo
Missouri belongs here. Northern Missouri is basically Illinois and Kansas, Southern Missouri is basically Arkansas, and Southeast Missouri is basically Mississippi.
Nowhere near being "midwest" but thats where it gets put.
"But there's farms there so MIDWEST"
Yeah, just like California and New York.
Its northeast.
Exactly how I feel but with Missouri and the south.
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