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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:26 AM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:

> When reading articles that define the country by regions no one ever  
> seems to agree where Mo should be placed.  South, midwest,  
> northwest, central south, even great plains.  These are unnoficial  
> defined by the authors.  Might be interesting to see how much that  
> happens with other states?

Missouri is unique in its location, history, and politics:

It is in the Midwest, a bit east of the geographical center of the  
country and is bordered by eight states, more than any other state;

Before it was a state it was used to effect a national political  
solution: the Missouri Compromise of 1820;

It has political balance. It finished its official presidential  
election count, the last state to do so, two weeks after the election,  
with a difference of 3,632 votes out of over 2.9 million votes cast.

As for southern Missouri being most South-like, this Wisconsin native  
found himself immediately feeling "at home" when he moved there.

This is from Wikipedia:
 It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting  
its history as a border state. It is also a transition between the  
eastern and western United States, as St. Louis is often called the  
"western-most eastern city" and Kansas City the "eastern-most western  
city."

And if anyone serves sweet tea in southern Missouri, they have  
successfully hidden that saccharine fact from me.
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> I think Texas is South.  It is in the western part of the South, but  
> not
>  Southwest.  Are you saying it is Southwest because of the land-the
> dryness, the desert?

Most of its land mass is in the southwest quadrant of America.