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Oklahoma is NOT “the South”. Trust me, I know this for a fact.
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Weeellll, actually...in geography we discuss often the regional conundrum/identity crisis in Oklahoma...midwest/south/southwest... but with Tea, people think it has to be sweet, I am often in the minority
I always considered OK to be the bridge from the Southwest to the Midwest. OKC seems more SW. Tulsa feels more MW.
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I've lived in either GA or OK for my entire life. While OK isn't in "the South", it does have Southern characteristics, and a Southerner is not going to feel out of place in OK.
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Agreed. I grew up in Mobile, AL, and there's similar DNA between the two, with Oklahoma obviously having a more "western" or "southwestern" element, but still......enough similarities that its not a big jump. I'd consider Oklahoma southern.
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(AL-OK) "Similar DNA"...
(AL-OK) "Similar DNA"...
Little Dixie is exactly like the south too
Okay, since we've gone completely off the rails here... I've lived in Mississippi and Georgia, and a couple of different places in each. I can generally hear the differences in accents between Mississippi Delta, Gulf Coast, Eastern Seaboard and Appalachia (I often joke that I speak five dialects of redneck with Oklahoma twang being the fifth). My accent is a blend of Oklahoma Western twang and Southern drawl that doesn't sound quite right in either place. Yes, there are some commonalities between Oklahoma's western culture and southern culture. But Oklahoma's culture is Western and not Southern. Oklahomans, with the possible exception of Little Dixie (haven't spent enough time there to know), DO NOT speak with a drawl, they speak with a Western twang. When I first moved to Mississippi I found I could not understand a true Southern drawl at all. My very first lecture there a kid asked a question. I couldn't understand it. I asked the kid to repeat it. I still couldn't understand it. I asked someone else to repeat the question. I couldn't understand that kid either. I asked the kid to talk with me after class and write it down. It was completely unintelligible to me, might as well as been a foreign language. They used idioms I had never heard before and I used idioms they had never heard before. I used the phrase "as big as Dallas" in class and then had to explain what that meant. Though there are commonalities, I stand by what I said, Oklahoma is not The South. It isn't. It just isn't.
Which brings me to Ohio. I used western idioms all the time. They thought they were southern, they didn't know the difference. "Rode hard and put up wet" I had to explain it. "A burr under my saddle"... I had to explain it. "Didn't know one end of a roan pony from the other"... I had to explain it. It was definitely part of my charm, they looked forward to when I used one of my "Rxisms" (they called them by my first nameisms). Having lived in the Midwest now for 15 years, Oklahoma is most definitely NOT the Midwest. Not even close.
Which brings me to Ohio. I used western idioms all the time. They thought they were southern, they didn't know the difference. "Rode hard and put up wet" I had to explain it. "A burr under my saddle"... I had to explain it. "Didn't know one end of a roan pony from the other"... I had to explain it. It was definitely part of my charm, they looked forward to when I used one of my "Rxisms" (they called them by my first nameisms). Having lived in the Midwest now for 15 years, Oklahoma is most definitely NOT the Midwest. Not even close.
You go west of Highway 81 south of I-
It all depends on where your grandparents grew up. My grandmother was an Arkansan and I knew a lot of southern idioms. The question on if your family is from the rural south or not all boils down to chocolate gravy. If you grew up with this wonderful delicacy your heritage is probably directly traceable to the rural South.
People do migrate. My grandmother grew up in rural Arkansas.
Yeah. My grandparents migrated from Mississippi. To little Dixie. Forcefully
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I'm so sorry. While my migrations haven't necessarily been voluntary, work related, they also haven't been forced. I've always had a choice.
Don’t be. We have casino money. And my grandfather married my grandmother. Who was white because she wasn’t on the rolls because they didn’t want welfare. Well her family struck oil after they moved their house when Sardis lake was made. Nobody will say that at this moment everyone is better off. Major sacrifice by multiple generations is an understatement but wow what a payoff
Weird thing is I have had 6 different cdib cards.
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I've lived in GA for over 50 years and grew up next door to my grandmother and had three great-aunts, all Southerners, within four miles from us. My other grandmother was from rural Alabama.
Not only have I never had chocolate gravy, I've never actually seen it.
Sorry dude, you just got the wrong southern roots
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