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Old 12-23-2022, 04:20 PM
 
Location: OKIE-Ville
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And people in the ACTUAL Midwest disagree.

People forget that the Midwest really is more NORTH than anything. You can't be both Southern AND Midwestern.

Yes Sir. Folks like myself who have lived out of Oklahoma (both coasts including New England) and rubbin' elbows with folks regularly from the Midwest I've met none who consider Oklahoma or Tulsa the Midwest.


Each to his own I guess. We don't all have to be right. :-)
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Old 12-24-2022, 12:24 AM
 
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Buenos Aires is the Paris of the New World


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kAyTTzvCU
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Old 12-24-2022, 04:32 AM
 
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Oklahoma is a Southern state, not a southwestern state.
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Old 12-24-2022, 02:24 PM
 
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Yes Sir. Folks like myself who have lived out of Oklahoma (both coasts including New England) and rubbin' elbows with folks regularly from the Midwest I've met none who consider Oklahoma or Tulsa the Midwest.


Each to his own I guess. We don't all have to be right. :-)

I've lived in:

Indiana - Midwest
Maryland - Mid-Atlantic (Not Southern)
Florida - Florida is just Florida, kinda southern, but also it's own thing
Alabama - Heart of the south
Kansas - Midwest
and Oklahoma, The dividing line between South, Midwest and Southwest.

Oklahoma is not a southern state. Tulsa is far more like Indiana and Kansas than Alabama or Florida. Oklahoma City is more like DFW/North Texas, which isn't southern either, it's part Southwest but all Texas.

And your "mid-south" based around Memphis? What? If this actually was a region Oklahoma City is larger than Memphis and is growing while Memphis is shrinking. But it's not a region, Oklahoma has about zero in common with western Tennessee or Arkansas.
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Old 12-24-2022, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Montreal
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My Grandfather came from Paris TX......
Good. Didja ever see the movie, Paris, Texas?
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Old 12-24-2022, 08:28 PM
 
Location: The State Of California
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Good. Didja ever see the movie, Paris, Texas?
No i never had the pleasure of seeing that particular movie.........

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6qOCFbDdCQ&ar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6qOCFbDdCQ&ar

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Old 12-24-2022, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Montreal
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Those two youtube links don’t work for me.



Saw Paris Texas when it first came out. I liked it then but saw it recently and wasn’t as charmed by it this time around. A bit too slow-mo for me.
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Old 01-04-2023, 11:55 AM
 
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I've lived in OKC for 12 years now and my wife was born and raised in Oklahoma. I go to Tulsa a lot to visit family and friends and it is just like OKC as far as the people and the culture.

Oklahoma is absolutely southern in every way! The food, the culture, the music, the dialect, the clothes and on and on.

New Mexico and Arizona are nothing like Oklahoma in anyway and they are the true southwest.

Every Okie I have met identifies as a southern and never have I heard of any Okie identifying as a midwestern or southwestern.

I lived in Raleigh for 3 years in my early 20's and It has more in common with OKC than say Tucson were my brother lives and has for over a decade now.

Honestly, Oklahoma and North Texas have the same culture and identity. I grew up in San Antonio.

Oh yeah, nothing is paris like in Oklahoma haha, might want to visit paris and europe before comparing any middle american cities to Paris.
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Old 01-04-2023, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma
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I've lived in OKC for 12 years now and my wife was born and raised in Oklahoma. I go to Tulsa a lot to visit family and friends and it is just like OKC as far as the people and the culture.

Oklahoma is absolutely southern in every way! The food, the culture, the music, the dialect, the clothes and on and on.

New Mexico and Arizona are nothing like Oklahoma in anyway and they are the true southwest.

Every Okie I have met identifies as a southern and never have I heard of any Okie identifying as a midwestern or southwestern.

I lived in Raleigh for 3 years in my early 20's and It has more in common with OKC than say Tucson were my brother lives and has for over a decade now.

Honestly, Oklahoma and North Texas have the same culture and identity. I grew up in San Antonio.

Oh yeah, nothing is paris like in Oklahoma haha, might want to visit paris and europe before comparing any middle american cities to Paris.
Through the years the Oklahoma regionalism has had a number of threads. As have had OKC and Tulsa.

There are plenty of people in OKC/Tulsa who don't identify as southern but rather as plains dwellers.
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Old 01-05-2023, 08:12 AM
 
Location: Oklahoma
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To add to the above post.

This morning TMC was running the 1931 version of the Movie "Cimmaron" which is about early day Oklahoma and the Osage county and the Cherokee Strip. During the entire movie they referred to Oklahoma as the "southwest" even though today the case could be made that the Cherokee Strip and the Osage county would be considered the one part of Oklahoma that is Midwest in a Kansas sort of way.

I think the "southwest" designation has fallen out of favor time. But we all remember the "southwest conference" which was made up of entirely Texas teams (and even Oklahoma in the early days). But it certainly existed at one point for Oklahoma.
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