Lan63 and her Midwest issues

[tunes]

Okay Laurie, to put a stop to your endless debate - take a look at this map.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weat...d-how-bad-will-it-get_2009-10-08?from=hp_news

WHERE does it say the flooding is? And WHAT state in particular is it hovering over? Hmmmmm????

Oh look! I think that's Missouri - in the MIDWEST.

<snicker>

 

[Ash]

I've told her that.... Missouri is NOT the South!

 

[Stackie]

:laughitup: And it's alllll headed my way!

 

[smhufflepuff]

If it's below the Mason-Dixon line, it's the South





...except that it's also West of the Mississippi River...

 

[Rickman]

Not siding with ANYONE - I just googled the Masom-Dixon line, and sure enough, Missouri was South!!

 

[threewingedfury]

Although today the state is usually considered part of the Midwest,[11][12] historically Missouri was sometimes considered a Southern state,[13] chiefly because of the settlement of migrants from the South and its status as a slave state before the Civil War.

...

Residents of cities farther north and of the state's large metropolitan areas, where most of the state's population resides (Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia), typically consider themselves Midwestern. In rural areas and cities farther south, such as (Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff, Springfield, and Sikeston), residents typically self-identify as more Southern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri

 

[tunes]

Yes, but once upon a time doesn't count. We don't live in the past, we live in the present, therefore, it's in the MIDWEST.

Don't you people encourage her! She's endlessly trying to trap people in chat into saying it's the south. Even the people who live there! They keep telling her they are the midwest and she refuses to believe it.

 

[Laurie]

OMG! I am of course going with Rick on this as he says it's in the South! I'm telling you people just LISTEN to someone from Missouri talk (mainly Nathaniel!) they are definitely Southern!

LOL!!!!!!!

 

[peachydays]

If it's below the Mason-Dixon line, it's the South

Gonna have to disagree! Maryland is below the Mason Dixon line, and we sure as heck aren't the South!!! The line LIES!

 

[jfleenor2]

I was born in Missouri. My dad and stepmom live there now. It's in the midwest!

 

[ABBY W.]

Gonna have to disagree! Maryland is below the Mason Dixon line, and we sure as heck aren't the South!!! The line LIES!

I agree! I'm in Virginia, and we aren't southern either, not until you get into southern and southwestern VA.

 

[peachydays]

I agree! I'm in Virginia, and we aren't southern either, not until you get into southern and southwestern VA.

Southern and southwestern VA might as well be a different state than northern VA. I guess western MD, too (different than the DC-Baltimore corridor)!

 

[starleomach]

How about Mid-south west?

 

[alli713]

I'm horrible at geography, but I don't think I would have thought Missouri was in the midwest :hmm:

Is Kentucky considered midwest then too?

 

[3CsMommy]

Southern is more a state of mind than a location, I think. My father's family was from the Shennandoah Mtn. area of Virginia, and it's a little alarming how much better I get along with the neighbors etc. there than my "Yankee" schoolmates etc.

I usually tell people that I'm Northern born of Southern stock, and that's how I got so **** good.

 

[Chinmama]

Maryland and Virginia are in the south...whether they like it or not. Missouri? No.

 

[addictedtochins]

Yes, but once upon a time doesn't count. We don't live in the past, we live in the present

I hate to, but I have to agree with you. If past territories counted then Laurie would call the west Mexico.

 

[Sandi]

If past territories counted then Laurie would call the west Mexico.

I laughed out loud on this one because it's so true!

 

[Lynn & The Chins]

Check THIS out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

And this is according to the U.S. Census Bureau!!!

 

[Rickman]

Oklahoma was considered "Indian Territory" back then - didn't even have a name!
Agree with northern/southern Missouri - ex had no accent when I met her, as she'd been 2 yrs. in Chicago. 2wks. in Sikeston, Mo., with family, and I really couldn't understand her!
I've been to St. Louis and never heard a hint of "southern drawl"!