Do you consider St. Louis a Northern or Southern city and why?
St. Louis is a little bit eastern and southern before northern! I find nothing Northern about the city at all in culture of style. The city acts like an east coast city with southern hospitality and style. Lafayette Square, Soulard, and primarily most of the city looks Southern and Civil War history and underground RR history is abundant in STL. The city's tone is more southern in language. They may not have an enormous southern draw like southern or outstate Missouri - but they do say: Warsher = washer Farty Far = 44 Farty = 40 Fark = fork Caddy Corner = not kiddy corner (northern) Soda = not pop (northern) This is far you = not this is for you Warshington University = Washington U you get the idea. It is pretty much the last place to the north you can enjoy Sweet Tea and any type of southern cuisine. I alsways say Missouri is divided today as it was in the Civil War. Anything north of I-70 (center state) is Northern and anything South of I-70 is Southern. Those two zones are completely different in cultures, language and even climates change.
What is a Saint Louis, MO accent? is it Southern?
OK, ive been wanting to know if people from MO (missouri) have any accent. I've heard yes and no. I've also heard that there is more of a accent from the people who come from STL (saint Louis) what is it.is it southern? i know MO is right in the center of the US, but i also know they are close to many Southern states, so i wouldnt be surprised if they have a somewhat southern accent. Sorry, but when i think of MO, i think southern, i know i am just stereotyping like many people do with us Californian people, but i like the different types of accents, and i'm still a bit confused on the whole STL MO accent. I was once told that people from CA. have an accent like in the Movie Clueless... which is so not true. this is why i need to know, so i can stop stereotyping haha. Oh, and someone from MO told me that they talk like this character who came out on this show "the fairly odd parents", it was Tom Sawyer, yes he is from MO, im not sure if that person was just being sarcastic, but i had to lookup that episode for myself, if that is how people from MO really sound, then yes it is extremely southern, but then again the show just might be overdoing it....by a lot. here is the link to the episode if you havent seen it, skip to like 9 minutes into the episode. http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/NTV_fai_shelflife_full.html thanks
Is Louisville a Southern or a Midwestern city?
Louisville sits squarely on the Mason Dixon line. First surveyed from 1763 through 1767 by two British surveyers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to resolve a border dispute between Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Ohio River became a part of that after 1781 and therefore, the separation of free and slave states. Kentucky was a mixed message state during the Civil War of abolitionist and pro slavery advocates. Louisville, a key river trading town, serviced a broad and, sometimes, nefarious supply of goods and services for all sides during the war. Writer John Ed Pierce said it best in the late 20th century. “Louisvilians have their heads in the cool north and their feet in the warm south.” So is Louisville a midwestern or southern town? Neither!
Is St. Louis a Southern or Midwestern city?
The arch in downtown St Louis is representing the Gateway to the West. The Gateway Arch is introducing the free world to the ideas and cultures of modern day western civilization people traveling from the east were probably amazed when looking west at the Mississippi River . with all kinds of emotions goin through the mind and body. I feel that St Louis Missouri is the epitome of the MidWest. that's not to say that towns in souther Missouri are not “southern” because they are. the souther draw in there speech definitely lets you know that your not in St Louis anymore.
Is missouri southern or midwestern?
I live in the middle of the state and I can say there is a definite southern feel to missourah by judging the amount of rednecks, fried food, rebel flags and southern accents but then you have cities like St. Louis and Kansas City which are more inclined with the midwest. Missouri was a slave state and during the civil war there was a lot of southern sympathizers, such as Jesse James who was a guerrilla fighter. I actually live in Boonville which was a site of an early skirmish at the beginning of the war. I think a lot of people today generally consider it to be a midwestern state and others disagree. I just wanted to ask your guys opinion on the matter. Midwest or the South?
Is Kansas City considered a Southern city?
Kansas city is also in Midwest Living. there is both Kansas City, Kansas and it flushes right into Kansas City, Missouri. Missouri is considered in the South. Kansas is in the Midwest. I mean on the planting zone charts, most of Missouri is considered South. and the little film of sweat on the children foreheads on the last day of school, when they are inside talking to their teachers, means Missouri is of the South or Southern.
What is the northern-most "Southern City" (USA)?
I have spent most of my non-undergraduate years in either St. Louis (birth city) and DC (where I currently reside). Although political jokesters have referred to DC as having Northern charm and Southern efficiency and it is below the Mason-Dixon Line it is certainly not a southern city. It has a goodly amount of blues, southern-style “comfort food” and a smattering of southern speech patterns, but it is more influenced by its roots of politics, policy and economics than it is by a line on a map.St. Louis actually saved Missouri for the Union. An ex-governor led the rebel sympathizers winning the first major conflict west of the Mississippi River at Wilson’s Creek. But the mostly German-born Union Troops protected the wharf and guns and munitions to keep the star in the Union flag that represented Missouri. Ironically there is a star for Missouri in the stars & bars. St. Louis has certain cultural ties to the south but they are more of a country “thang” than southern.Having taken two off the board I would offer to you that Richmond would argue that it is becoming more urbane and fewer and fewer residents say Y’all or “How’s you and all them folks”. The University of Richmond is one of the most expensive schools in the world…costing $47,000….$4,000 more than Harvard. But the majority of Richmonders would most likely call it a “southern” and not “northern “ city. It has become a “foodie” paradise but still offers great places to buy antiques, quilts and home designers’ plantation-chic.This leaves us with Louisville. Kentucky, like Missouri, is one of those border states that fought itself during the War of Northern Aggression. It is the wellspring of America’s true spirits….Sour Mash, charred barrels..American Whiskey, Rye and Bourbon. If you have seen the Maker’s Mark or Jack Daniels’ ads you know you are in the South. Watch the Run for the Roses”. Just as Epcot is the British Royal Derby the Derby at Churchill Downs is a time of mint juleps and huge women’s hats plus garish men’s blazers. Those events have folks from Cape Cod and San Diego saying, Y’all and asking “How’s you and all them”?.It is a close call but I opt for Richmond. It was, and always will be, the Capital of the Confederacy.
Which has the harsher winters, Kansas City, St. Louis, or Washington, DC?
The question: Which has the harsher winters, Kansas City, St. Louis, or Washington, DC?In my experience, it’s a toss-up between St. Louis and Kansas City, but both are somewhat more harsh than DC. They tend to get colder earlier, and stay colder longer. Kansas City and St. Louis also can get awfully windy in a way that it just doesn’t get in DC. Really, if you go West of KC, it can be very windy; there’s just nothing to block it.That said, there’s one major issue with DC in winter: the people. For various reasons, people in DC seem to be in complete denial about experiencing winter. Every single winter, come the first snowfall, people are completely shocked. Snow! In Washington D.C.! Just like every year!And they somehow lose any knowledge of how to drive. Every time it snowed, there’d be so many people ending up in ditches, so many accidents, so many people hilariously stuck in a few inches of snow because of their own incompetence.This is compounded by the ineptitude of the snow plowing. In the Midwest, if there’s a storm coming the plows are out spreading salt hours before the storm hits, and they’re plowing from the moment snow starts falling. In DC, the plowing starts later, and so poorly organized, it almost might as well not happen.So I think the winters are harsher in the Midwest, but they’re also vastly more capable of handling it. DC winters are slightly milder, but many people just have no idea what to do in foul weather.