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06-19-2009, 11:56 AM
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No one in the south really considers Texas southern.
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06-19-2009, 01:50 PM
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Location: Athens, GA, and Austin, TX
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Texas and the South
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Originally Posted by Tondo1984
No one in the south really considers Texas southern.
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I have a funny story about that.
When I arrived in Georgia where I now work, I had dinner with a Georgia native, and we began talking about U.S. Presidents. He said to me, "As a Texan, you must think that the first Southerner to be President of the U.S. was Lyndon Johnson, but here in Georgia we know that it was Jimmy Carter. Texas really just isn't part of the South."
I thought about that for a minute and replied, "That's funny, I thought it would have been George Washington."
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06-19-2009, 02:19 PM
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I said South, but won't argue with those who say Southwest. Could go either way, but I typically think of New Mexico as the beginning of the Southwest if I have to draw a vertical line.
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06-19-2009, 02:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tondo1984
No one in the south really considers Texas southern.
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True, but we were part of the Confederacy. |
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06-19-2009, 02:35 PM
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Location: Dallas and UT Campus
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CptnRn
Austin is in the Heart of Texas. Texas is a very diverse place which doesn't really belong in any of those other categories.
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This. |
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06-19-2009, 04:14 PM
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Location: Austin, TX
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It seems to me that when you cross I-35 in Austin you have left the South and entered the Southwest.
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06-19-2009, 07:38 PM
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Do you have a wild HOG problem?
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin, Texas
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I look at So, Cali, and Arizona as the southwest.
New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana, as the south
With Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, S. Carolina and Georgia, as the southeast.
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06-19-2009, 07:41 PM
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Do you have a wild HOG problem?
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jdevelop2
It seems to me that when you cross I-35 in Austin you have left the South and entered the Southwest.
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 I don't care who you are, that there was funny! |
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06-19-2009, 07:42 PM
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Location: Austin, Texas/ Sewanee, Tennessee
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I live in Tarrytown. Most of my friends (neighbors) went to Georgia, Mississippi, Vanderbilt, and Louisiana State. I for one went to The University of the South. So I consider it southern.
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06-19-2009, 09:57 PM
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I agree that I don't think it fits neatly into any category, but I think it most closely resembles the South. As Steve mentioned, it was part of the Confederacy.
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