It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state and early settlement by migrants from the Upper South.

However, enough large Northern, Midwestern, and Southern states supported Truman to give him the victory on the second ballot.

In 1962, when the Eastern Interconnection was established in its current form, The Interconnected Systems Group ( composed of Southern and Midwestern utility companies ), the PJM Interconnection, and the Canada-United States Eastern Interconnection ( CANUSE ) formed the Interconnection Coordination Committee to recommend an informal operations structure, which led to the formation of the North American Power Systems Interconnection Committee ( NAPSIC ).

The same La Niña event is also a likely cause of a series of tornadoes of above-average severity that struck the Midwestern and Southern United States in the spring of 2011, and is currently a major factor in the drought conditions persisting in the South Central states including Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

In the 20th century, African American migration from the Southern United States into the Midwestern states changed Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis, and many other cities in the Midwest dramatically, as factories and schools enticed families by the thousands to new opportunities.

Southern Baptists compose 15. 42 % of Missouri's population and a small percentage in other Midwestern states.

All of the lower Midwestern states, especially Missouri, have a major Southern component, and Missouri was a slave state before the Civil War.

The town is also mentioned in the 1974 country song "( We're Not ) The Jet Set ," in which George Jones and Tammy Wynette sing about road tripping around the Midwestern and Southern part of the United States in a Chevrolet while falling in love.

Unlike Perry Mason, which took place in Southern California, the daytime series was set in the fictional Midwestern city of Monticello.

The states in light red, particularly the Frontier Strip | Plains States, are sometimes considered " western ", although they are often grouped with separate regions such as the Midwestern United States | Midwest and Southern United States | the South.

It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet named John Shawnessy, who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle ; however, her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage.

In the Southern and Midwestern United States, gigging is used for harvesting suckers, bullfrogs, flounder, and many species of rough fish.

In the Atlas of North American English ( 2006 ), he and his co-authors find three major divergent chain shifts taking place today: a Southern Shift ( in Appalachia and southern coastal regions ), a Northern Cities Shift affecting a region from Madison, Wisconsin, east to Utica, New York, and a Canadian Shift affecting most of Canada, as well as some areas in the Western and Midwestern ( Midland ) United States, in addition to several minor chain shifts in smaller regions.

The chain is primarily located in the Southern, Western, Southwestern, and Midwestern United States.

Since 1965, economic difficulties of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the " New South " with lower costs of living, family and kinship ties, and improving racial relations have all acted to attract African Americans to the Southern United States in substantial numbers.

the American bullfrog provides a food source, especially in the Southern United States and in some areas of the Midwestern United States.

Most of the overall gap detected in the study was driven by the Southern and Midwestern states in the sample — Texas, Florida, and Ohio.

After moving inland, Erin slowly weakened as it tracked across the Southern United States and Midwestern United States.

Piggly Wiggly is a supermarket chain operating in the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States, run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C & S Wholesale Grocers.

* Burgoo-a Southern and Midwestern chili-like stew made with many ingredients

The 1980 United States Heat Wave was a period of intense heat and drought that wreaked havoc on much of the Midwestern United States and Southern Plains throughout the summer of 1980.

Some states ( Southern and Midwestern states in particular ) tend to use the term " Highway " for state routes and their sections of U. S. highways, while others prefer the term " Route.

In the Midwestern and Southern U. S., they are commonly served as hors d ' oeuvres before a full meal is served, often during the summer months.

In some parts of the Southern and Midwestern United States, the terms " salad eggs " or " dressed eggs " are used, particularly when the dish is served in connection with a church function — presumably to avoid dignifying the word " deviled ", in reference to " The Devil "

Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

Upon receiving the news, Northern writers, editors, and clergymen heaped accusations of murder on the Southern states, particularly Virginia.

He called for a greater attraction of industry and a stop to the piracy of industry by Southern states, and a strong fight against discrimination in business and industry.

Southern China, all of southeast Asia, southern India and Ceylon, these states of the Malay Federation spoke Bazaar.

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.

Lincoln directed his inaugural address to the South, proclaiming once again that he had no intention, or inclination, to abolish slavery in the Southern states:

As Southern states were subdued, critical decisions had to be made as to their leadership while their administrations were re-formed.

After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation.

During this same period, slave-holding border states had more free African-Americans and European immigrants than the lower South, which increased Southern fears that slavery was threatened with rapid extinction in this area.

Lincoln had begun putting Reconstruction policies in place during the war, but Northern anger over his assassination and the losses of the war, led to demands for more severe policies toward the Southern states.

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).

In response to the Black Codes and Southern recalcitrance, the Republicans prevented the secessionist states ' representatives from taking their seats in Congress in the fall 1865.

The decisive battle was the election of 1866, in which the Southern states were not allowed to vote.

Johnson's mood did not change ; he continued to criticize the Congress for refusing to allow the Southern states to take their seats.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late 19th century.

b. Youatt states that the Southern Hound may have been native to the British Isles and used on hunts by the Ancient Britons.