The funny thing about trying to make us Southern Democrats is that we were not a state until 1907 so we were not involved as a State in the Civil War. The south never claims us. We are in the heart of Middle America with a large Native American population. The Chief of the Cherokees is a Republican.
My friend works for the Cherokees. I guess the CEO endorsed Obama saying it was better for the casinos for poor people to have money, they would go and waste it in the casinos.
On the one hand I find that kind of preying on people a terrible thing, on the other I admire the blunt honesty of it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The underlying bedrock culture of Oklahoma is Southern because it’s settlers were predominantly Southerners.
> The south never claims us. <
Well, I’m a Southerner. A whole bunch of my kin moved to OK after the War BTS, and they and their neighbors still sound “Southern” when they talk.
Therefore, I’m perfectly willing to claim OK as a part of the South!
(Moreover, the Choctaws, Creek, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Cherokees were the ORIGINAL Southerners. In fact, their blood still runs in the veins of a very large proportion of Mississippians, Alabamans, Louisians, etc. — both black and white.)