• @Got_Bent
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    1 year ago

    I never have figured out how to categorize Oklahoma, but Midwest has never been on my Oklahoma bingo card. It’s more like a less affluent extension of Texas that is full of bogus slot machines and smells like weed everywhere.

    There is some surprisingly pretty land up there though. Growing up I always thought of it as a barren dust bowl wasteland. Lots and lots of trees in reality, at least in the eastern half. Don’t know what’s in the panhandle. I’m not sure anybody does.

    Edit: Just as I finished typing this, a commercial came on the TV. To quote, and no I’m not kidding, “Live the flyover life. Move to Oklahoma.”

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      141 year ago

      That part of the country is like part midwestern, part southern, part western.

    • @Geriatrickid
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      111 year ago

      Well, now you have to move to the panhandle after that commercial, let us know how it is.

      • @Frozengyro
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        81 year ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s a giant meth lab

    • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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      71 year ago

      Texan here. Oklahoma definitely has more in common with Kansas than Texas. I’d call it Great Plains, which has a lot of overlap with the midwest but isn’t quite the same thing.

    • Subverb
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      61 year ago

      I was born in Southern Arkansas and have lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma for 40 years. I consider myself a Southerner, not a Midwesterner. But that’s self-reported.

      The joke here goes “You know why Texas doesn’t slide off into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks so hard.”

      But truth be told, Tulsa is a pretty nice place to live. About half a million people and fairly progressive for a “Southern” state. And while many of the the hardcore conservatives moved to Texas, you still see a lot of Trump flags here.

      • @Got_Bent
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        41 year ago

        I went to Tulsa once ten years ago and was very pleasantly surprised by it. Really a nice little city.

    • GreyBeard
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      51 year ago

      I always joke that there is East, West, and South Texas, and then there is Meth Texas, AKA Oklahoma.