(05-15-2014 02:42 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  JR, if you ever look at those Red State/Blue State maps, the cultural disparity between the South and the Plains might not be that great. It's not a perfect alignment, but there might more overlap than one would initially expect.

Vandiver a lot of the small Midwestern states are fairly conservative, but I wasn't questioning the politics as being part of the culture, but rather the idea of Kansas and Iowa State being in the SEC. I just believe that there are boatloads of fans that would have a knee jerk reaction to it and they wouldn't even be thinking about politics. They would be thinking that Kansas was where Dorothy went over the rainbow and that Iowa is a Yankee cornfield (although several of the best looking women I've met were Iowans). Face it, Jayhawks and Cyclones don't exactly scream "South". Don't read too much into it. Rural is rural everywhere and urban is urban and that is the real difference between red and blue anyway as far as voters are concerned. As far as I'm concerned there's not a damned bit of difference between the two parties. And I think Iowa State and Kansas would be fine. I'm just not sure that the average SEC fan will be able to wrap their heads around it easily, that's all.