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They aren't the same kind of Southern as SC, GA, AL, or MS. I'm not sure what the difference is, but there IS a difference.

That's my hometown. We aren't as southern as the southern-most southerners but it might be because of our hardscrabble past. We are on the border of Oklahoma, the foothills of the Ozarks (northwest Arkansas, a long-time Republican stronghold) This part of Arkansas has always resented the controlling tenticles of Little Rock and her dirty politicians. So, we are less southern in some ways than other states at least in the northwest region but we are very patriotic. More recruits in the U.S. military come from the northwest Arkansas region than any other region in Arkansas.

Hey, that's cool!
My family moved there in 1963.
As a matter of fact, I went to school in Spiro, Ok.
We lived right across the state line.
I didn't live there very long, because I got married.

My Family are all coming down here for Thanksgiving this year, because of the situation with Richard being missing.
They will be here for week. They want to see him and make sure he's okay. He isn't, but that's a different story.

They really are different up there.

I was born in the south and raised everywhere because of the military so, nowhere was home until after I married.
I married a guy that had never been out of the state except once.
We went to Arkansas to visit my family, and he was amazed at the difference.
He thought he had landed in cowboy land. He loved it!
There is quite a difference in these last 35 years.
There isn't as much cowboy feeling now as use to be.

It's like they are a mixture of a little southern magnolia, a little Tennessee hillbilly and a lot of Texas cowpoke.
Well, that's how it looks to us anyway. :-)