MS is a bad area period. It’s the poorest state in the union. It takes them years to fix a road. They’ve been working on an interstate extension. We went through MS twice about 8 years apart and they had made 8 miles worth of progress.
Try something further North if you want to be able to relate to people in any way. Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, the North half of Missouri.
I’m from MA but live in Southern MO now and it’s like we speak two different languages. They don’t understand my humor and I don’t understand theirs. They do not get sarcasm at all and will misconstrue it to be some sort of sneaky yankee insult. All they want to talk about is the woods, deer, hay, cattle, wild mushrooms, squirrels and the local goings on of so and so did this or said that.
I have found a few people that are originally from the North that I can relate to. Multi-generational Southern Missourians? not so much.
I’m very rural and think if I even lived closer to a major city, I’d probably relate to people better as that’s where people from other states tend to live due to being able to find work.
that is why i love southern missouri that all i want to talk about. Why i love it here in southern missouri so much..to funny you are so spot on
“Winter’s Bone” (2010) was filmed in Taney and Christian counties. It did a great job of realistically portraying southern Missourians.
Creepiest line of the movie “I’ve already told you “no’ once with my mouth.”....