What’s the historical reason it wasn’t included in one of the other states? Why not have it be part of Kansas or Texas instead?
Slavery, like usual, was the answer.
It has a lot to do with the US using Oklahoma as a dumping zone for first Americans and then over time taking even that from them piece by piece.
If your interested, Jonny Harris did a piece on it recently.
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Meth and cousins is what gets done in those there parts.
I mean you could have said that about the rest of the visible map there as well
Excuse me, but I happen to live in Oklahoma City and I really don’t appreciate how accurate you’re being right now…
Oklahoman here! I’ve personally haven’t spent much time in this part of the state. It’s was historically referred to as “No Man’s Land” if that gives you any idea. The panhandle has a much more arid, high plains type climate than other parts of the state. I believe there are literal sand dunes out that way. Oklahoma’s highest point, Black Mesa, is in the panhandle. Im told Black Mesa is a great camping spot for star-gazing, but I’ve never been. As far as I’m aware it’s mostly right-wing but jobs living in that area. I seem to recall a few local news stories about people in that part of the state making a big stink about trans kids trying to use the bathroom and so forth.
As far as I’m aware it’s mostly right-wing (nut) jobs living in that area.
This is different from the rest of Oklahoma how?
Like all states, there is a gradient of political leanings, especially around cities. For instance, northern Virginia is nothing like the rest of Virginia at all. I imagine it’s similar in Oklahoma, where the major population centers don’t reflect the rest of the state at all.
Former Texan here: slavery is why that exists. They ceded the land so they could enter the union as a slave state.
Weddings where everyone sits on the same side of the church and some of the worst maintained roads in America.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a wedding in a church. Are the families supposed to split up?
Then the terrible roads must somehow be the fault of "those libruls’, when there’s not a liberal in sight as far as the crow flies for a couple of days at least.
The Trump sign, flag, or bulletin board per square mile is unreal. I’ve driven through there a few times and I legit don’t feel safe.
They are incapable of understanding that it is the lack of progressive policies that keep their region a neglected backwater.
After driving around south east Oklahoma this weekend, it scares me to know that there are worse roads in the state.
