Rate these cities in missouri from MOST southern feeling to least southern feeling

[bigbluestl]

A relative of mine used to have a lake house on Bull Shoals in far southern Missouri 15 minutes away from Arkansas. There was nothing Midwestern about that area of Missouri. It is part of the upper south Ozarks. Culture, everything. It was not midwestern. Far more southern than Springfield as well and at least as southern as Branson.

[imbored198824]

Originally Posted by bigbluestl

A relative of mine used to have a lake house on Bull Shoals in far southern Missouri 15 minutes away from Arkansas. There was nothing Midwestern about that area of Missouri. It is part of the upper south Ozarks. Culture, everything. It was not midwestern. Far more southern than Springfield as well and at least as southern as Branson.

Branson is 10 mins north of Arkansas and bull shoals lake borders branson to the east....so I think it would b similar to here lol. Where was it?

[bigbluestl]

Originally Posted by imbored198824

Branson is 10 mins north of Arkansas and bull shoals lake borders branson to the east....so I think it would b similar to here lol. Where was it?

Around Isabella MO I think. Just over 5 or so miles from Arkansas.

Btw Branson I was down there last May about two weeks before "season" before the yankees arrive. It seems very southern around Table Rock. Springfield is fairly southern too, but Table Rock, Branson area IS the south. Of course this is what I call Southern Lite. I mean the northern Arkansas Ozarks, and parts of the MO Ozarks. It's southern, but upper southish way NOT the deep south King Cotton like the bootheel or northern MS is. Not in your face like it is in rural GA, MS and such.

It's funny on the strip I must have counted about 10 Confederate battle Flags, stuff in souvenir shop windows being sold, even a rebel flag bikini I saw on a manikin too lol. I mean I was kinda shocked at the quantity of them. You'd think it was 1937 Berlin on something with all the flags.

I mean we know it's southern in Branson, but the Ozarks of northern AR and Southern MO were not heavily pro confederate during the civil war.

[MOKAN]

Does this lend credence to the idea that Missouri is Southern?

Ferguson protesters met with hecklers, Confederate flag in rural Missouri | The Kansas City Star

[bigbluestl]

Originally Posted by MOKAN

Does this lend credence to the idea that Missouri is Southern?

Ferguson protesters met with hecklers, Confederate flag in rural Missouri | The Kansas City Star

Not all of the state, but part of the state is southern.

Rosebud where this town is located in is on the northern end of that transition zone (its along US 50) that starts around US 50 in Missouri so it wouldn't be shocking.

[Ball freak]

Originally Posted by bigbluestl

Not all of the state, but part of the state is southern.

Rosebud where this town is located in is on the northern end of that transition zone (its along US 50) that starts around US 50 in Missouri so it wouldn't be shocking.

Specifically a quarter of the state is Southern although I've seen a few rebel flags in Central Missouri.

[bigbluestl]

Originally Posted by Ball freak

Specifically a quarter of the state is Southern although I've seen a few rebel flags in Central Missouri.

That's about right. About 25 percent of the state is Dixie/Southern, other 25 percent is a transition zone that starts at US 50 and the other 50 percent is midwestern, lower midwest.

I'm not shocked to see a few flags in central MO. I mean that's little Dixie and some of the people there have ancestry links to the South, or are just rural Rednecks even though that area is mostly lower Midwestern today.

I would of course expect to see more rebel flags in this state compared to IL, IN, OH since parts of our state is in the South and because of it's history. MO is defiantly and anomaly compared to the other midwestern states due to not all of the state being in the midwest.

I think a bigger debate is how much culturally Southern is present day Florida is. Even when I was in Gainsville I really didn't hear many Southern accents and that's pretty far north in the state.