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Originally Posted by Sciencewoman
Also, I find it interesting that many people don't consider Oklahoma to be "southern." From my upper midwestern perspective, every Oklahoman I've met has been a lot closer to southern than they are to midwestern, at least in terms of speech patterns and dialect. I saw a tornado survivor being interviewed on the Today Show this morning, and he said, "fixin' to."
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Midwesterners swear we're Southern, Southerners swear we're the Midwest. Geography books say we're Southwestern which is the most patently false of them all, and they won't take us either.
Oklahoma: America's red-headed step-child.
(I identify as Midwestern but other Okies disagree. With a deep-Southern father, and a northeastern mother, growing up in OK, I was always going to be a muddle.)