[AuH2ORepublican]

"I never considered Oklahoma! to be southern"

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IMO, the South is composed of the 11 states in the Old Confederacy plus Kentucky and Oklahoma. This is the definition used by most scholars. The way I see it, if Texas is Southern, then so is Oklahoma.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I'm not a scholar, but unlike almost all scholars, I spent four months in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is OK. It was never a slave state, never really had a major Black population. Probably has the highest percentage of American Indians in the country. If that doesn't make you Western what does? Texas is a special case, both Southern and Western. Actually, Texas is unique... (Massachusetts is just Connecticut without Long Island Sound and a better press agent.)