Which of these states is your favorite Southern state? I put in the names of several border states.
But border states like MO have few areas today that could be considered southern by most any standard. I just spent three days trekking across TX at the beginning of the year and it was only on the eastern third day that I was encountering towns and people that seemed southern (a lot more was southwestern). If the great majority of a state isn't southern, what purpose does it serve to put it on a list with states that are?