Oklahoma’s Southern & Confederate Creds
Another great read by T. Morris at Identity Dixie
Regular reader and valued ID commenter, Outside Looking In, recently asked of me (here) which part(s) of my native State comprise the Confederate part(s). This is a great question I have been asked, and have answered, many times over the last fifteen or so years. However, when I’m pressed for time and/or space (such as in a combox), my answer to the question is always woefully incomplete; it is very simply to procure a map of the state and, beginning at the state’s northeast terminus, to draw an imaginary line from there to the southwest terminus of same. The territory south and east of the line being the Confederate part; the territory north and west (including the panhandle) being the Unionist part of the state.
Now, there is some irregular overlap on both sides of the line in the foregoing demarcation, but the model is nevertheless a close approximation. If you are one familiar with the old pre-statehood (pre-November, 1907) maps of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, they give an even closer approximation, distinguishing those areas of the state originally settled by Southerners, versus those parts originally settled by their Northern counterparts. On those maps in particular, the Indian Territories previously allotted to the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee and the Creek tribes, are all Confederate territories for purposes of answering the question.
There are a number of reliable ways by which one may verify this information, one of which is the 13th United States Census taken in the counties and precincts scattered about in…
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