re: Is Texas southern or western?

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Wow never would have thought so many of the OT to not understand Texas. Seems some of you that live there don’t even understand your own state as well as I do, someone from outside the state. It’s an undeniable fact Texas is southern and the question was actually rhetorical. Just ask the question, do Texans act more like people from the gulf like Mississippi, alabama, Louisiana or like hippies from California?

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I've lived in Houston for 30 years and Dallas before that. Texas is most definitely not southern. They share some foods, some attitudes, etc. But all the things that truly make something southern are just not here. They aren't exactly western either. They have a little bit of the Western Frontier (especially in attitudes), a little bit of the south (food, people are nice), and a LOT of it's own thing.

Texas is Texas and nothing else.