Is Missouri part of "The South"?

[golfgal]

Someone just told me that Missouri is not considered being part of the south--that was news to me. I have just considered everything south of the Mason Dixon line "The South". So, which is it?

 

[monkeyboy]

GWB is mason-dixon line

 

[Jennasis]

AFAIC it's part of the mid-west. Not the south.

 

[dandave]

Absolutely not the South! It's in the midwest.
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[ilovemk76]

The Missouri compromise allowed the US to claim Alaska as our 57th state.

 

[tvguy]

It is considered the midwest, not the south.

Now how the name midwest for a portion of the country that is so far east ever stuck, I'll never know.

 

[Aisling]

I voted no. I never saw it as part of the south. Midwest, like others have said.

GWB=GWBridge??? If so, I resent that!

 

[stevenpensacola]

We don't claim it down here...

 

[doxdogy]

Mississippi yes, Missouri no.

 

[Scurvy]

I'm a southerner and I definitely don't think Missouri is part of "The South". I've never heard of it being referred to as a southern state before. I'd call it part of the midwest as well.

 

[PollyannaMom]

This reminds me of "What's a Yankee?" -

To someone from the south, a Yankee is someone from the north,
to someone from the north, a Yankee is someone from New England,
to someone from New England, a Yankee is someone from Connecticut,
to someone from Connecticut, a Yankee is a baseball player....

 

[Allison]

South? No way, it is in the Midwest.

 

[stitchlovestink]

and I don't know that I would use the Mason Dixon Line to divide North and South. Maryland is south of the Mason Dixon Line but I think you'd be kinda hard pressed to find a Marylander who considers him/herself a southerner. We Marylanders mostly consider ourselves Northerners.

 

[Allison]

According to the census bureau, it is part of the midwest.

 

[jackemail]

I always puzzle when reading my "Southern Living" magazine, which includes Maryland and Washington, D.C. as part of the South. I don't consider them to be part of the South.

 

[palmtreegirl]

....

 

[weheartdisney]

Missouri is definitely not in the South.

 

[stasijane]

We don't claim it down here...

We dont claim down there up here!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

No, I consider it part of the Midwest.

No DH used to get flak from a friend that he married a Yank, to which I told friend that I was technically born south of the Mason Dixon. He didn't believe me so I had him look it up. Lo and behold, south Jersey is in fact south of the Mason Dixon. However, I don't consider myself from the south or a Yank. I'm a Jersey Girl!! LOL

 

[MyManGoofy!]

My dad's family is from Missouri going back to the mid-1800s. I know that they feel they are more southern than they are mid-western. I think some may feel it is southern because the state was so sympathetic to the Confederacy during the Civil War, even though Missouri did not actually secede. Just my geeky two cents.