justaniceguy

You’d be wrong

What are the early tell tale signs?

Cutter buck golf polo
Made in Italy trousers
Some socks I bought in Amazon, made in turkey
Old worn Cole haan drivers
7.5/8 outta 10?

Central Texas as a whole was far more Anglo than German. The Germans were in specific places.

The hill country itself is only about half German, and that doesn’t even encompass all of “central Texas”. Really I just meant the parts that are not “East Texas”

Southern Louisiana is Catholic, settled by Acadians, French, and some other groups.
They never got a large settlement of Anglo southerners.

West and central Texas did. They quit farming and starting ranching, but they are still Protestant, they still eat similar foods to the rest of the south, and their ancestors are the same people that make up Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, etc.

What makes southern Louisiana “more southern” than central and west Texas?

I would wager most southerners have ancestors from both categories. I do.

Fair enough!

So you are also a Lincoln supporter I presume?

Maybe the “southern strategy” is wrong but the fact is there were conservative and liberal factions in both parties. Most southerners, even fiscal conservatives, were democrats.

Today, that is no longer the case. I don’t think southerners had a mass awakening. The parties clearly started moving past each other in different ways.

My ancestors seceded from the Union. I’m not afraid of that fact. Not going to turn my back on it like you want to. Or maybe you are a carpetbagger? With no connection to our history?

I would generally agree with you there. If those states ever had southern influence it has mostly been washed away.