To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"I never considered Oklahoma! to be southern"
IMO, the South is composed of the 11 states in the Old Confederacy plus Kentucky and Oklahoma. This is the definition used by most scholars. The way I see it, if Texas is Southern, then so is Oklahoma.
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09/24/2003 12:49:46 PM PDT by
AuH2ORepublican
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
To: AuH2ORepublican
I'm not a scholar, but unlike almost all scholars, I spent four months in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is OK. It was never a slave state, never really had a major Black population. Probably has the highest percentage of American Indians in the country. If that doesn't make you Western what does? Texas is a special case, both Southern and Western. Actually, Texas is unique... (Massachusetts is just Connecticut without Long Island Sound and a better press agent.)
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