Hey Mr. geology professor. Speaking of Missouri biased (: ...can you explain what the "Kissee Mills structural trend" fault is and where I can find more information? I saw it on GeoSTRAT but cant find information. Is it part of the Chesapeake fault? Thank you.

Wouldn't give it a A+, as the description of the St. Francois Mountains formation kinda leaves out that they were Volcanic Islands, akin to the lesser Antilles of the Caribbean of today.

@@twotone3471 I live right by the junction of 23 and 16...yup Booger Co..there are lava flows here..I was not surprised one bit..

We used to hear the term 'yu-uns'; I think it's the plural of "you ones".

​@@ContinuousRefinement That there is some hillbilly grammar if i's ever heard it speaked.

don't give me your "social construct" Bullshite...piss off

@@232323C I love the Ozarks and I am an Ozarker so I know it sounds like he is dismissing the identity but he isn’t. He’s just saying that regions based off of A particular people and their identity are a construct of that society. It’s just a way that social theorists conceptualize these things. Just to repeat, I do think it does sound dismissive in many cases, but I don’t think he means it in that way. Also, the term is maybe a little pointless as everything human organization is just classified as a “construct” which makes it sounds like it didn’t also develop naturally through selection, adaptation, etc. and all identities are artificial (which comes off as very dehumanizing).

Y'all = You all...Yu'uns = You ones.

they do call it the Illinois ozarks

Me too

I've heard it spelled Sody Pop. It was a colloquialism for a Cokie-Colee.

A hollow is way smaller than a valley.

It's pronounced "HOLLERS" in the Ozarks!

Nope its "Hollas" at least here.

Reckon so.

Most of my paternal grandfathers family was from Jasper not far from Harrison my grandpa and his grandfather were both born in Missouri though oddly I assume they were both born while their parents were visiting family since they lived in Newton county for nearly 100 years.

We live north of Dixon...my wife's family ("Dake") is from Iberia.

I remember sodie-pops.

That darlin is a fact.

The Mason-Dixon Line is up between Maryland and Pennsylvania, way north. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason-Dixon_line

But that Appalachians are much much bigger..mom's from the poconos and dad from Fayetteville..7 Gen. Of our blood here.

Why? Ozarkians are way more about culture than rocks. It's just erosion. Dey ain't mountainees, they'se justie ditchwees.

@@ryanmcginness2888your statement is true, our mountains ain’t high, but our valleys sure are deep. This is because of geology; we are on the Springfield-Salem Plateau (uplifted, flat lying rocks) which has been eroded for 280 million years.

I thought course one was just a teaser because I couldn't find any more after that on the Missouri State University KZfaq page probably cuz there's so much great content to sift through. Then a day later the rest of them showed up in my recommended KZfaq. Thank you so much, God bless

He could mean this one:www.jstor.org/stable/2561819?seq=1 I simply searched the term "Ethnic study of the Ozark Mountains" and there were several results. This one looked like it may be the one Dr. Blevins references. There may be more.

If you are interested in the early ethnic make up of America I recommend the book Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. It won’t get you to the exact Ozark ethnicities but it’ll help you to learn the founding stock’s identity and from there follow their migration westward. One thing I found when studying the history of the United States and our demographics was the prevalence of Scottish and a few Irish settlers on the early frontier in the Appalachian region. Later you see a trend of mostly Anglo and Scottish stock moving further west, along with Germans, as metropolitan areas saw over crowding. Newer Irish migrants didn’t really go to the frontier but stayed in the metropolitan North East. This trend would continue with future waves of migration. So overtime the original 13 colonies actually became slightly less Anglo while the west became more like the demographics of the original 13 colonies at their founding. That is until more people started moving west.

I call Northern Missourah Southern Iowa. I hope you won't make me say what IOWA stands for.

Well said!!

I thought the same thing when traveling through parts of the foothills in Tenn. and in northern Georgia. I believe it’s the fact it’s all been left behind by industrialization, they’ve had a frontier/ hill folk identity, population generally comprised of Scottish and Anglo settlers (later German), has always been very rural, etc.

@@Adam-hj8ou My people settled in Pope Co, Arkansas in 1836 they were from Cabarrus Co. North Carolina. I still own part of their property. The culture traveled from N.C. Tenn. Ky. Va. to Ark. and Mo. a long time ago. It is still alive and well here in Eastern Ky. where I live now.

@@garyshinn4626 yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. That’s kind of what I assumed as Arkansas and Missouri would be settled later on (obviously haha). There is a great book I recommended to someone else called “Albions Seed” which covers the origins of the founding stock of the US and were they settled. From there you can follow their paths west.

Yes. But that whole show is filmed elsewhere. Only the “B” roll and overhead footage was filmed in the Ozarks around Lake if the Ozarks area.

Thanks for clarification.

I know this is super late, but it is Dr. Brooks Blevins. He is an expert on the field of Ozarks Studies.

Charles Burgess He has a little bit of a Southern accent.

@@CJColvin ... Lol yes . Most people from the Ozarks do

@@doniphan72ify You are correct mate. The part of Missouri that has a southern accent would be the Ozark region.

@@CJColvin ... And the Mississippi Delta Region of Missouri which has more of an Alabama type of accent .

4.54 Billion years. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth That’s what science says, anything else is a bad guess or flat out fiction.

Mega time (viz. "millions" or even "billions") suggests geology. Geology with its mega time fundamentally defines the Ozarks, other definitions are fundamentally derived from this.

The geology defines the region. The rocks you see were deposited as a lime mud off the left coast of the continent on a vast continental shelf 350 million years ago. Example: NW Arkansas is the largest chicken producer in the country because there is no soil to speak of, it’s all rocks, can’t farm, so raise Chickens! This gave rise to Tysons Inc. a global industry. Due to geology. The rocky ground was good for growing grapes. Karst topography caused many caves and springs and streams…. Add sugar and you’ve got moonshine. The stereotype is derived from the geologic resources.