[CharlesWayneCT]

Kansas and Tennessee don’t count as actual southern states; to be a southern state you have to have a contiguous border with Georgia.

[StormEye]

"Kansas and Tennessee don’t count as actual southern states; to be a southern state you have to have a contiguous border with Georgia."

Tennessee does share a border with Georgia.

[Waryone]

If you go to Tennessee, don’t make the mistake of calling any one of them a Yankee. But then you “Virginny” types would not know that. LOL!

[The Duke]

Kansas and Tennessee don’t count as actual southern states;...

This former TN farm boy might have to take issue with that statement (dusting off my "rebel yell").

[j.argese]

Kansas is NOT a Southern state.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Heh. But I think you meant Oklahoma, not Kansas. TN and OK are two Southern states in which Santorum finished first; meanwhile, Newt hasn’t finished first in any state outside the South:

[Vaquero]

errr. hot flash...Kansas is NOT a southern state... though before the war it was hotly contested

The events later known as Bleeding Kansas were set into motion by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which nullified the Missouri Compromise and instead implemented the concept of popular sovereignty. An ostensibly democratic idea, popular sovereignty stated that the inhabitants of each territory or state should decide whether it would be a free or slave state; however, this resulted in immigration en masse to Kansas by activists from both sides. At one point, Kansas had two separate governments, each with its own constitution, although only one was federally recognized. On January 29, 1861, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state, less than three months before the Battle of Fort Sumter which began the Civil War

[docbnj]

“Kansas and Tennessee don’t count as actual southern states; to be a southern state you have to have a contiguous border with Georgia.”

But TN does have a border with GA. Now let me guess: you went to a public grade school after the 1950s, right?

By the way, MS, AR, LA, TX and VA do not share borders with GA, and they are all surely southern states

[docbnj]

“Kansas and Tennessee don’t count as actual southern states; to be a southern state you have to have a contiguous border with Georgia.”

But TN does have a border with GA. Now let me guess: you went to a public grade school after the 1950s, right?

By the way, MS, AR, LA, TX and VA do not share borders with GA, and they are all surely southern states