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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on March 26, 2024, 10:51:50 AM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1bnrqos/midwesterners_southerners_and_missourians_lets/
A couple of threads on the geography Reddit debating this. What says the Collective, especially those who live there?
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It's half-and-half. Southern Missouri is the South. The northern half is in the Midwest.
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It's half-and-half. Southern Missouri is the South. The northern half is in the Midwest.
According to my father, Ft Leonard Wood is neither. He did advanced training there in January, 62. To hear him talk, it's somewhere between Siberia and the ass-end of the moon.
Brad
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According to my father, Ft Leonard Wood is neither. He did advanced training there in January, 62. To hear him talk, it's somewhere between Siberia and the ass-end of the moon.
Brad
Ft. Lost in the Woods
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Yes.
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Yes.
The line is accurate for Illinois. Below that line, the character of the state is quite different.
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Living in the KC region, I consider both Kansas and Missouri as Midwest. However, I'm not sure how someone living in Springfield would classify that part of the state.
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According to my father, Ft Leonard Wood is neither. He did advanced training there in January, 62. To hear him talk, it's somewhere between Siberia and the ass-end of the moon.
Brad
You may notice that young people who go to any military base or college anywhere* think it's the most dull and boring place on earth.
*unless they're going to school in downtown NYC or Miami, or something.
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (We are Jayhawkers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWtUL5Rx364
"..anything from Missouri has a taint about it..."
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I live in the St. Louis area. People an hour's drive south of here sound like they're from Arkansas.
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I live in the St. Louis area. People an hour's drive south of here sound like they're from Arkansas.
Thats the troops from Leonard wood.
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Thats the troops from Leonard wood.
You need to look at a map, son. =)
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IIRC, Union troops were stationed in the St. Louis area due to government fears of a Rebel take-over that might block the Mississippi river.
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In order for me to decide, you'll have to Show Me.
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When you get done figuring out where Missouri is figure out where Kentucky is.
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When you get done figuring out where Missouri is figure out when Kentucky is.
Same place as Babylon 4.
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Note to self: Don't post until I've at least finished the first cup of coffee.
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When you get done figuring out where Missouri is figure out where Kentucky is.
Southeast of Missouri. Duh.
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You need to look at a map, son. =)
Fine that's southwest of you.
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Kentucky was a border state - lots of abolitionists, etc... IIRC, Missouri was a slave state/territory... Lots of former confederates kept fighting based here...
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The actual "Mason-Dixon line" didn't come that far west. It ran north along the Delaware/Maryland border, then turned west along the MD/Pennsylvania border but stopped short of the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line
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Kentucky was a border state - lots of abolitionists, etc... IIRC, Missouri was a slave state/territory... Lots of former confederates kept fighting based here...
Kentucky was a slave state that at first tried to remain neutral in the war but then sided with the Union. Meanwhile a shadow Confederate government was set up in Bowling Green but no one really paid any attention to it. Didn't stop the CSA from admitting Kentucky as the CSA's 13th state though. Weird situation with Kentucky remaining in the Union while being considered part of the confederacy by the CSA at the same time. The Confederates did capture Frankfort (state capital) for a short while and was the only Union state capital captured by the CSA during the war.
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Look up The Burnt District for a fun read about where I live. General Order 11.