Current Events > Is Missouri in the Midwest, and if not, what region is it in?

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Also, what do you think of the state?

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Southern from what I've been told
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

Southern from what I've been told

It pretends to be southern, but no, Missouri is in the Midwest.
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According to Wikipedia, it's Midwest. Looking at a map, I'd say that basically makes sense. It's in the same general area as Iowa, Indiana, etc. and is only slightly further South.

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Having grown up there, it's the bastard child of the midwest and South

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Missouri loves company

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1) Midwest

2)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoWc6WRHKEE

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Why not mideast?

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The Popo posted...

1) Midwest

2)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoWc6WRHKEE

The major cities(stl and kc) may as well be southern, but the other areas are distinctively midwest.

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Missouri is Midwest and I've never heard it called the South. I live in Missouri

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Orochi_ posted...

Why not mideast?

There's no mideast USA.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Missouri is Midwest and I've never heard it called the South. I live in Missouri

It was part of the south in the Civil War. St Louis is a sister city of New Orleans.

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pres_madagascar posted...

It was part of the south in the Civil War.

That was 150 years ago though. Geographically it's Midwest

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Midwest.

Source: I live there, we call it the Midwest. We also make fun of Arkansans.

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pres_madagascar posted...

The major cities(stl and kc) may as well be southern, but the other areas are distinctively midwest.

If I were to boil it down to generalizations, I'd say the opposite. St. Louis and especially KC are fairly typical midwest cities. It's when you get to places like Lebanon or the Ozarks where you start to see the Confederate Missouri roots bleed through.

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Compsognathus posted...

If I were to boil it down to generalizations, I'd say the opposite. St. Louis and especially KC are fairly typical midwest cities. It's when you get to places like Lebanon or the Ozarks where you start to see the Confederate Missouri roots bleed through.

Stl and Atlanta are very similar cities.

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While they were border state in the civil war. These place is as racist as AL and Mississippi. So I would put it in the South.

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The only people who say Missouri is southern aren't from Missouri. It's midwestern. And saying St. Louis specifically is like a southern city is a weird take. I'd say the better answer is that places in Missouri outside of St. Louis are more southern. Like all those rural corn places.

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MeIon Bread posted...

According to Wikipedia, it's Midwest. Looking at a map, I'd say that basically makes sense. It's in the same general area as Iowa, Indiana, etc. and is only slightly further South.

Why even ask us when the all-knowing Wikipedia has the answer

Also, is there a section on how tall houses are there?

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viewmaster_pi posted...

The only people who say Missouri is southern aren't from Missouri. It's midwestern. And saying St. Louis specifically is like a southern city is a weird take. I'd say the better answer is that places in Missouri outside of St. Louis are more southern. Like all those rural corn places.

I literally grew up in St Louis. Was there for 22 years. Stl is VERY similar to Atlanta.

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It's in the Midwest.

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pres_madagascar posted...

I literally grew up in St Louis. Was there for 22 years. Stl is VERY similar to Atlanta.

What's so particularly Southern about it, then?

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viewmaster_pi posted...

The only people who say Missouri is southern aren't from Missouri. It's midwestern. And saying St. Louis specifically is like a southern city is a weird take. I'd say the better answer is that places in Missouri outside of St. Louis are more southern. Like all those rural corn places.

Agree with this. Lived in Stl all my life except for a few years in college where I was in a rural area near kc

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viewmaster_pi posted...

What's so particularly Southern about it, then?

Admittedly, I didn't grow up in the white people part of Stl, I can't even tell you what that part of town was like outside of shopping areas and architecture. In terms of the hood though, and the culture, stl and atl are very close.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

I'd say the better answer is that places in Missouri outside of St. Louis are more southern. Like all those rural corn places.

While I don't disagree with you (I know close to nothing about Missouri) I don't get why you chose to emphasise the "rural corn places".

Well I just equate farmland with "southern", and there are certainly many stretches of grain.

Then again, St. Louis is really close to Illinois, too.

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Midwest

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Midwest fo sho lol. I mean there are 2 (TWO!) states directly south of it. It's as close to Minnesota as it is to Louisiana.
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It's Midwest

Reason: it's west of the Mississippi River, While still being towards the middle.

For whatever reason they use the Mississippi River as the great east/west dividing line in the U.S.
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pres_madagascar posted...

Having grown up there, it's the bastard child of the midwest and South

Yeah. I grew up in St.Louis and been to the southern parts of Missouri and it's very different than the northern parts. Geographically it's midwest. But culturally it's an amalgam.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

Well I just equate farmland with "southern", and there are certainly many stretches of grain.

Then again, St. Louis is really close to Illinois, too.

The midwest produces way more corn than the south.

thanosibe posted...

Yeah. I grew up in St.Louis and been to the southern parts of Missouri and it's very different than the northern parts. Geographically it's midwest. But culturally it's an amalgam.

St. Louis is also a 3-4 hour drive from Memphis

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