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I would say there are multiple states in different regions, I think it comes down to personal definition of regions. Is Kansas Great Plains or Midwest? Or both? I say both, I see the Great Plains as a sub-region of the midwest... But perhaps some states are in a region of their own. Hawaii, Texas... not sure what else. Alaska is Pacific Northwest imo.
I would go along with my native state of Texas being one, but I have to qualify.
Texas is Texas, I agree. It is region unto itself and large enough to be one...and any native Texan who says different will likely hear the words "Git a rope..." LOL
But if placed in a region, it is essentially Southern. The upper panhandle is more akin to the lower Midwestern plains states, and the trans-pecos is more like New Mexico and Arizona, but that is about the extent of it.
Texas -- again as a whole -- has little in common at all -- historically nor culturally -- with the interior Southwest states. Those states did not even become states until the early 20th Century; they did not influence the development of Texas at all. Texas is southwestern in the old-sense of the word. Which is "western South."
Texas has a "western" imagery -- and well it indeed should have one -- but it really means "not eastern (except for East Texas) not "western" as in a Colorado or Utah. Texas has nothing in common with them. Not in the least. Even the Texas cowboy has Deep South roots.
Well, kind of a transition zone between the South and Mid-Atlantic. I think most would agree that Northern Virginia is starting to feel more like metros further north. If not Virginia, definitely Maryland.
I would go along with my native state of Texas being one, but I have to qualify.
Texas is Texas, I agree. It is region unto itself and large enough to be one...and any native Texan who says different will likely hear the words "Git a rope..." LOL
But if placed in a region, it is essentially Southern. The upper panhandle is more akin to the lower Midwestern plains states, and the trans-pecos is more like New Mexico and Arizona, but that is about the extent of it.
Texas -- again as a whole -- has little in common at all -- historically nor culturally -- with the interior Southwest states. Those states did not even become states until the early 20th Century; they did not influence the development of Texas at all. Texas is southwestern in the old-sense of the word. Which is "western South."
Texas has a "western" imagery -- and well it indeed should have one -- but it really means "not eastern (except for East Texas) not "western" as in a Colorado or Utah. Texas has nothing in common with them. Not in the least. Even the Texas cowboy has Deep South roots.
Texas one and indivisible. But if I really had to bunch it with other states, I'd have to go with the Texas curriculum and put it in the southwest. Do they still teach that in Texas?
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