Where in Missouri does the South begin? (St. Louis, Springfield: houses, price)

[linicx]

The problem with the census is the DC is working on numbers submitted by mail and house to house census. The people in DC have no idea where anything is located -- and neither do the census takers. For instance there is an area I know well that is actually 7 counties and has been since the area was formed millions of years ago. However it is not attached to only MSA. In theory this makes no difference but in practical theory it does make a difference as it is relates to state and federal funding for schools, road projects and services to people.

In other areas Census throw pieces of surrounding states and makes assumptions to create something no one locally recognizes. I don't know anyone who drives 90 miles for groceries. It's like if "IT is there you must use IT because it is there. It's circular thinking. The reasoning may apply in DC and places that are population saturated, but it does not necessarily apply to rural America or places like Noel, MO., or Jay. OK.. Most of those folks doen't shop in Fayettville, either - which is no closer than Joplin. But this is how they think.

Originally Posted by MoSouthernMan

I wish the census wasn't so broad though with their regions because I don't think the entire state of MO should be in the Midwest geographically or culturally. .

[mhts]

Originally Posted by linicx

The problem with the census is the DC is working on numbers submitted by mail and house to house census. The people in DC have no idea where anything is located -- and neither do the census takers. For instance there is an area I know well that is actually 7 counties and has been since the area was formed millions of years ago. However it is not attached to only MSA. In theory this makes no difference but in practical theory it does make a difference as it is relates to state and federal funding for schools, road projects and services to people.

In other areas Census throw pieces of surrounding states and makes assumptions to create something no one locally recognizes. I don't know anyone who drives 90 miles for groceries. It's like if "IT is there you must use IT because it is there. It's circular thinking. The reasoning may apply in DC and places that are population saturated, but it does not necessarily apply to rural America or places like Noel, MO., or Jay. OK.. Most of those folks doen't shop in Fayettville, either - which is no closer than Joplin. But this is how they think.

To answer your message, make sure you stay out of mine. The feeling between us is mutual. So consider yourself disregarded.

[imbored198824]

Originally Posted by mhts

Sounds to me like Branson's the only area of the state you have any true knowledge of. Stop trying to speak for the whole state as Southern when all you can really do is speak for your area. The rest of the state is not like the southern quarter of the state.

Wow, you sound very upset. I am sorry you are not polite and have no manners like us SOUTHERN Missourians have. 7 million people visit Branson every year. They get the impression of Missouri as being a southern state. To have 7 million people come to this part of Missouri a year and take back home with them this notion of Missouri, that only cements in their minds that Missouri is a southern state .

[linicx]

Why don't you tell the whole story?

You sent me a rude message for no reason. I replied, "Take your pail, and your shovel, and you insults, and get out of my sandbox. I don't like you."

You chose to respond in a forum. Now everyone knows the whole story. It has nothing whatsoever to do with my comment about US Census, does it?.

Originally Posted by mhts

To answer your message, make sure you stay out of mine. The feeling between us is mutual. So consider yourself disregarded.

I think you said something similar to me a couple of weeks ago. I should still have the message. I wish you would make up your mind.

[mhts]

Originally Posted by imbored198824

Wow, you sound very upset. I am sorry you are not polite and have no manners like us SOUTHERN Missourians have. 7 million people visit Branson every year. They get the impression of Missouri as being a southern state. To have 7 million people come to this part of Missouri a year and take back home with them this notion of Missouri, that only cements in their minds that Missouri is a southern state .

Branson, like many have said, is a small part of the state....if they ever visit St. Louis or Kansas City they'd come away with a much different impression of Missouri. And woah, so Southern Missourians are better than other people? I guess it all makes sense...they think they're better, so they speak for the whole state. LOL...Branson belongs in Arkansas, not Missouri.

[linicx]

Branson is a small city in Taney County in Southwest Missouri. Branson has 1/5 of the population of the fastest growing county in the state. .

[mhts]

Originally Posted by linicx

Branson is a small city in Taney County in Southwest Missouri. Branson has 1/5 of the population of the fastest growing county in the state. .

So that makes Branson the best and most representative of Missouri? Wow. One small county. One small city. Goes a long way from representing the state.

[linicx]

You said: "Branson, like many have said, is a small part of the state."

I indicated the City of Branson is part of Taney County, and said county is the fastest growing in the state.

BTW, this is great news for Taney County!

[imbored198824]

yep southwest missouri is growing. If this keeps happening it will overtake stl and kc in population. 50 years from now the majority of the population for Missouri will reside in the southern portion of the state!!!

[MoSouthernMan]

Originally Posted by imbored198824

yep southwest missouri is growing. If this keeps happening it will overtake stl and kc in population. 50 years from now the majority of the population for Missouri will reside in the southern portion of the state!!!

But will they be more liberal, and ruin the culture like what happened in CO?