What region are we in?

[ZYX]

I disagree with Gaspar that someone from Arizona, New Mexico, or Utah would transplant here and see little change in culture. There is much less Latin influence, the cities look little alike, the landscape is vastly different (mainly eastern Oklahoma) and there seems to be something about the people (I can't exactly pinpoint it) of Oklahoma that is more connected to the lower Midwest and the South than the Southwest.

As for the food, it could just be my family, but we eat a lot of food traditionally considered Southern. A Sunday dinner at Grandma's house is fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, tea, and cake. As for normal day to day meals, we tend to eat more grilled meats and vegetables in the summer (not region-specific) and some chili and soup in the winter (somewhat Southwestern).

I visit the South quite often and have visited the Southwest, and from my personal experience Oklahoma has much more in common with the South than the Southwest.

[heironymouspasparagus]

We are not really very close to Southwest - there are touches here and there, but not really all that identifiable.

[Conan71]

I disagree with Gaspar that someone from Arizona, New Mexico, or Utah would transplant here and see little change in culture. There is much less Latin influence, the cities look little alike, the landscape is vastly different (mainly eastern Oklahoma) and there seems to be something about the people (I can't exactly pinpoint it) of Oklahoma that is more connected to the lower Midwest and the South than the Southwest.

As for the food, it could just be my family, but we eat a lot of food traditionally considered Southern. A Sunday dinner at Grandma's house is fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, tea, and cake. As for normal day to day meals, we tend to eat more grilled meats and vegetables in the summer (not region-specific) and some chili and soup in the winter (somewhat Southwestern).

I visit the South quite often and have visited the Southwest, and from my personal experience Oklahoma has much more in common with the South than the Southwest.

Sweet tea or un-sweetened?  Just checking for your southern creds. 

Someone from Taos would be entirely thrown off by our sense of ambition and activity here.  That's got to be one of the more laid back places I've ever been.  Great place to do nothing with a bunch of people who live there and do nothing.

[ZYX]

Sweet tea or un-sweetened?  Just checking for your southern creds.  

Someone from Taos would be entirely thrown off by our sense of ambition and activity here.  That's got to be one of the more laid back places I've ever been.  Great place to do nothing with a bunch of people who live there and do nothing.

Depends. My tea is as sweet as it gets but different members of the family have their preferences.

Oh, and I could have a whole nother (is that even a word?) discussion over our societal expectations of work here. I truly have no idea why we work the hours we do. Take me to the mountains, the woods, or the beach and I'll be happy to do nothing.

[Red Arrow]

Depends. My tea is as sweet as it gets

Do you like a little tea flavor in your sugar water?

[Red Arrow]

I do realize that. I have studied geography quite extensively for someone my age and could give a convincing explanation on why I think Bixby is the way it is, but I just wanted to hear what others thought. I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear.

The Midland Valley Railroad is probably a big part of why Bixby is what it is too.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okbhs/bixby/midland_valley.html

[ZYX]

Do you like a little tea flavor in your sugar water?

As long as its not overpowering, a little bit of tea flavor is tolerable.

[Callahan]

NSFW I hear "Sweet Tea" and I think of this:

[TheArtist]

  The two early, dominant migrant communities that began to shape Tulsas character appeared to have been the, Upper Midwest (Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago Ill., etc.) group which tended to be more educated and professional (Socs), and the knuckle dragging, sweet tea drinking group that migrated in from the south along the Appalachian Trail (Greasers).     

[Red Arrow]

... and the knuckle dragging, sweet tea drinking group that migrated in from the south along the Appalachian Trail (Greasers).     

And they got lost too.  The Appalachian Trail goes from Maine to Georgia.  I couldn't find a west bound leg of the AT.  Must have been before GPS.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail

[TheTed]

Depends. My tea is as sweet as it gets but different members of the family have their preferences.

Oh, and I could have a whole nother (is that even a word?) discussion over our societal expectations of work here. I truly have no idea why we work the hours we do. Take me to the mountains, the woods, or the beach and I'll be happy to do nothing.

Work ethic?

That must not translate to restaurants. Two different places the other night I was told they were 'out of food' or the kitchen is closed despite it being 30 minutes before closing time. Finally just went to Whataburger.

If you have a good work ethic, I don't think you decide to close the kitchen until it's the restaurant's closing time. This happens over and over and over and over again to me.

[Red Arrow]

If you have a good work ethic, I don't think you decide to close the kitchen until it's the restaurant's closing time. This happens over and over and over and over again to me.

Maybe restaurants should post a "last call" time instead of / in addition to a closing time.               

[heironymouspasparagus]

And they got lost too.  The Appalachian Trail goes from Maine to Georgia.  I couldn't find a west bound leg of the AT.  Must have been before GPS.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail

The first ones came along the path from Georgia, the southern part of the AT - when Andrew Jackson had the US Army confiscate all their property, made them line up at gun point, and start walking west.  Just in time to fulfill his fondest desire of direct genocide by exposure, disease and starvation - killing as many as half!

But luckily they had the army to keep them pointed in the right direction, so they wouldn't get lost....