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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut
A friend of mine here is from Springfield. Is that South enough?
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Interesting, Springfield is a weird spot. It's not doused in southerness through and through like an Oxford Mississippi, no not at all. Someone can come from there and not really be southern-ish at all and learn-ed people/intellectual types would be more apt to cast any southern-ness off and trash their roots, unlike the "real" south where they would be more apt to ironically embrace it. It has Ozark influences which are more Appalachian like, as well as midwestern. There are heavy strains of that evangelical conservatism and twangy accents, not everyone is like that, and in that sense Springfield is probably much more southern plains/texas-y than deep southern. There are not rural African American communities dotting the landscape nearby (one of the main "tests" for the REAL south, really). It's definitely got that texas-y suburban grit, and just might be the first city heading southwest that has it that way. Tons of trucking companies as well. The metro area has like 400,000 (spread out) people, so it's not po-dunk, at least not
everywhere.
Springfield is the most NE city with a southern plains/texas-y influence and maybe the last city going SW with a midwest influence, although Tulsa can make a solid case. It would be an extreme outlier, for sure.
The only part of Missouri that is really in the south is the flat bottomland of the mississippi valley on the SE side up to but not including Cape Girardeau (too much of a St. Louis influence).
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BBC WN just had a segment on dry counties in Kentucky. The interviewees represented the South well. 
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