[Oklahomagirl74]

If you ask me, we're southern, with a bit of Midwest thrown in! lol

[Mattie Jo]

Why not just come up with a new name altogether because we are not southern or Midwest?

[Rubi3]

Originally Posted by Mattie Jo

Why not just come up with a new name altogether because we are not southern or Midwest?

There would never be agreement on a new name. It wouldn't matter if it were the most perfect name in the history of perfect names.

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by Mattie Jo

Why not just come up with a new name altogether........................

We have, no one wants to admit it. What we are are "Okies." Try to put us in ANY other classification and there will ALWAYS be an exception. (Oklahoma is midwest, except for..............; Oklahoma is southern except for...............; Oklahoma is Western except for.............)

[kitcat5555]

Archer_22, I have generally the same outlook on OK as you. I grew up in Tulsa, where there was no accent like that of the surroundings,----even a few miles away in Jenks! (now incorporated into Tulsa of course). I think it was mostly because the town was built on oil money and mostly from wealthy speculators coming from the east. And Tulsa was for a long time the richest city per capita in the US.

That's certainly no longer the case of course now. And now (I was back for visits) you do hear more what we would call 'country' accents. Though probablt still NOT like in the rest of the state or the surrounding Arkansas/Texas accents which were, and are, very pronounced.

I too never was not served or offered grits as a breakfast food choice. Gruts not part of the normal diet unless you were travelling in the Smoky Mountains---or elsewhere.

Tulsa up to 1960 and perhaps later was definitely a different area from its surroundings, and much more cosmopolitan relative to its surroundings. That's perhaps no longer so.

[Pincho-toot]

It's Southwestern. The same way Texas is. It has Midwestern and Southern (southeastern) influence but over all, its a rugged western state with dryer weather, and a cowboy culture. Similar to northern Texas.

[swake]

Eastern Oklahoma is dry?

[dmandtruth]

Tulsa is so close to AR, might as well be called southern. But I live almost on the TX border, and I don't want to be called a southerner. I'm a westerner. I lived in AR for a few years. Southern living not for me!

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by swake

Eastern Oklahoma is dry?

In relation to where? Florida?



Orlando, FL - average annual rainfall: 53.19 inches

Tulsa, OK - average annual rainfall: 40.91 inches

[linicx]

Even the government cannot make up its mind. HUD puts OK is in the Midwest. The US Fish and Wildlife Service includes OH, WI, IN, MI, IL, MN, and MO, but no OK. The Census Bureau includes the states listed but adds KS, IA, NE, ND, and SD, but not Oklahoma

I would say that unless you are trying to buy a house, or borrow money to repair/rehab your house, you'll have to look for OK in another region.