Anyone who thinks SW MO isnt the South must be from the deep south and the only Tony I know from that far south is a glorified handyman from North Fla.
During the following session (1819-1820), the House passed a similar bill with an amendment, introduced on January 26, 1820 by John W. Taylor of New York, allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state
ok......as long as you don't revert to the southern ways........ (we had some of those ideas down here you know, its just that we don't really like to think about that part of history when 'they' weren't allowed into the Central Valley....past Turrialba)