Day 13, Lazy
Sep. 17th, 2013 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseI have spent most of the day in bed reading two mysteries and a book about the production of The Wicker Man.
From this, I have come up with the following poll. More will be explained later.
[Poll #1934440]
From this, I have come up with the following poll. More will be explained later.
[Poll #1934440]
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Date: 2013-09-18 12:08 am (UTC)As far as Texas goes, that's a perennial question. It's not southern, it's not quite southwestern. We're just uniquely annoying.
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Date: 2013-09-18 01:49 am (UTC)I waffled over that one.
Where do you think Tulsa belongs? South? West? Other? Is eastern OK in the Midwest and western OK in the West? Is any of it in the South? Where do Oklahomans put themselves, regionally speaking? *curious*
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Date: 2013-09-18 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-18 06:25 am (UTC)BTW, I am incredibly fond of Oklahomans, as a whole. When I was doing software help desk work, my very favorite clients were from Oklahoma (and Canada), a pattern that was unexpected but remarkably consistent, over a number of years. I still smile with great affection when I hear an OK accent.
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Date: 2013-09-18 11:52 am (UTC)We do have the Southern Hospitality thing going on, to some extent.
The state has a strange and sad history and that kind of carved it away from its neighbors, and we are a bunch of people from elsewhere (except for the Native Americans), but we have a lot of Southern customs for sure.
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Date: 2013-09-18 01:02 am (UTC)AZ & NM? Southwest. No question.
It's not so much where it sits on the map as a matter of regional identity.
And as an Ohioan born and bred, I will happily tell you now and forever that I grew up in the Midwest. :-)
/opinionated
ETA: Fabrisse, may I link to this post? It's a fun one that I think might spark interest and discussion.
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Date: 2013-09-18 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-09-18 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-18 06:22 am (UTC)Also, my parents were both from Chicago and my mom's sister still lived there, so we visited at least once a year. I still have great fondness for it. :-)
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Date: 2013-09-18 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-09-18 04:44 am (UTC)I am covered in fail.
And that makes this icon ironically appropriate.
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Date: 2013-09-18 06:23 am (UTC)In the East that's considered rude; they just cut them dead in the street.
In the Midwest they don't shoot people they've been introduced to.
(In the South they don't shoot people unless they've been introduced. Why do you think it's called the "Civil" War?)
I tend to think of the Midwest as any State that has a piece between the Mississippi River and the Ohio River. So far it's never been a critical issue, but if it ever is I'll make my case.
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Date: 2013-09-18 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-18 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-18 05:49 pm (UTC)Though the coastal States are, politically, Mars.
Sam Clemens was born in the West. Minnesota is a little bit Midwest.
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Date: 2013-09-18 10:10 pm (UTC)Oklahoma is TOTALLY on the dividing line of midwest, south, southwest and west, geographically, ecologically, and culturally, so it kind of depends on what part you're talking about. I didn't click Tulsa in your poll, but I'm not firm about that at all. I drove out to Fayetteville a couple of weeks ago, and it was fascinating how, when I got off of I-44 and hit the Cherokee Turnpike to go east, how fast the terrain changed. It was gorgeous over there.
This kid I know, songwriter, has a song with the verse:
Central Oklahoma is my land
It's my country
Eastern Oklahoma is a beautiful sight
Northern Oklahoma might as well be Kansas
Never go to southern Oklahoma at night.
Yup.
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Date: 2013-09-19 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-18 03:24 pm (UTC)Radical Cartography: The Midwest
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Date: 2013-10-18 04:38 pm (UTC)