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On 2/5/20 8:02 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 13:02:58 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:


Cape Girardeau is a town on the border with Illinois so it is not
exactly southern. Perhaps if you go south west towards Arkansas or
Oklahoma it might get a bit more southern.


Crikey. Thought you went to a fancy prep school. Missouri was a slave
state during the Civil War, if not a Southern state. Dred Scott was a
black slave in Missouri who was taken by his "owners" out of the state
and into the territory, which had been designated a free territory by
the Missouri Compromise. Scott was taken back to Missouri, where he
claimed he was now free because of his time in the territory, A state
court ruled against him, followed by a federal court, followed by the
Supreme Court. I had a college buddy from Cape Girardeau and visited
there several times. It had the mindset of an old Southern town.
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