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Showing Original Post only (View all)state by state speak your mind about ...Missouri [View all]
Last edited Sat Mar 3, 2012, 01:23 PM - Edit history (1)
i have friends there
it isnt southern but it seems like it is
politically it has been a bellweather state
st louis is the gateway to the west with a very nice arch to prove it
it also was a very important shipping stop on the mississippi river
historically Missouri has had a checkered past
the Missouri compromise fed into the civil war and the mormon wars exiled citizens and confiscated their lands
Missouri has led the way on a lot of american history
the pony express started there and so does the oregon trail
these opened the west to us all
its the show me state
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Spent most of my life here, and I hate to say, but it's not getting any bluer . . .
hatrack
Mar 2012
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