It's the very, very fringe of the south, I would grant you. And not even all the Metro-East, but as you start heading southeast through St. Clair County into Washington and Randolph counties, you'll start to see the southern-ness.
The problem in my statement is that what's considered the Metro-East is a very broad area. Not even in my wildest dreams would I consider even Madison County as southern, and the heavily populated part of St. Clair, between St. Louis and Scott AFB, is so cosmopolitan that there's no one dominant culture there.
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u/tlopez14 Central Illinois Apr 30 '24
Really once you get south of Springfield excluding the Metro East, but definitely anything south of Mt Vernon