Except in Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, West
>>> Virginia, and Missouri.
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> Oh yeah. Forgot Arkansas.
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I use "the South" in the classical sense. I'll grant you the first four, plus Arkansas; the other three aren't us (unless we want to reopen the file on the Constitutionality of West Virginia: http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehood/cabinetopinions.html).
I know the Confederacy lodged a spurious claim to it, but doesn't everyone consider Missouri Midwestern? As for Oklahoma, if you're going to stick us with that, you might as well go all the way and give us Nevada too! Arizona and New Mexico would make more sense (but don't get any ideas).
Florida's pretty much its own planet these days, but I guess it's nevertheless ours.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."