# CT Shooter Thread in the Pit

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**Created:** [December 20, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661 "2012-12-20T20:27:30Z")\
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> [@27 dead, 18 children](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-dead-18-children/644050/720):
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> The only problem, of course, is that Oklahoma isn’t “Midwestern.” It’s really a southern, Bible-belt state, but it seems to fit the available evidence better than any Midwestern city.

I’m originally from Kansas City, and know a number of people from Oklahoma. We all refer to these areas as “the midwest”, because, well, they are. Don’t get hung up on “the plains” or any of that nonsense - “the midwest” is a demographic description, not a geographic one. People in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, north Texas, Iowa, etc. all very much identify with being from the midwest, because once you get bogged down in the cookie-cutter suburbia, it’s all pretty much identical.

Anyway, calling Oklahoma “the South” is definitely in error. They most certainly don’t self-identify with that.

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