Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[naraht]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Not familiar with your source, but if it includes St Louis as "culturally southern" (see your earlier post), then I don't know how much stock I'd put in its definitions.

St. Louis is another border town, and an odd one at that. It is on the border between the Breadbasket (to its north and west) and Dixie (to its south and east), but East St. Louis belongs in the Foundry.

[LaneSig]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Not familiar with your source, but if it includes St Louis as "culturally southern" (see your earlier post), then I don't know how much stock I'd put in its definitions.

Originally Posted by naraht

St. Louis is another border town, and an odd one at that. It is on the border between the Breadbasket (to its north and west) and Dixie (to its south and east), but East St. Louis belongs in the Foundry.

I will have to say that there is quite a bit of southern 'influence' in St. Louis. A large percentage of the St. Louis-area population is either from southern Missouri or descents of family from southern Missouri. Southern Missouri, especially close to the Arkansas border, identifies strongly with the South. As a result, many people who moved to St. Louis for jobs carried a lot of southern traditions with them (and I don't mean the Confederate flag).