Is Texas more Western or Southern? (El Paso, Laredo: photos, state, green)

[AlGreen]

Actually, most of Texas is prairie, not desert.

[CurlyFries]

Eastern Texas is Southern

Western Texas is Western

[West of Encino]

I'd say the El Paso area is more Western. The rest of Texas is Southern.

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by CurlyFries

Eastern Texas is Southern

Western Texas is Western

...still, with southern characteristics. I doubt there's any corner of the state that's completely devoid of any southern culture altogether.

[blkgiraffe]

Just needing some clarification what is considered the division between east and west Texas??? Are we including Dallas, Austin, San Antonio in the eastern Texas section???

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by blkgiraffe

Just needing some clarification what is considered the division between east and west Texas??? Are we including Dallas, Austin, San Antonio in the eastern Texas section???

First, we need to clarify the difference between East and eastern Texas; West and western Texas. Eastern Texas, to me, is everything east of the I-35 corridor.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by smartypants7

I grew up in East Texas, about 2.5 hours from Louisiana. Texas is extremely southern. It will never be southwestern. I cringe when I hear people call it that. It's like they're trying to take my heritage or culture away from me. Most of my ancestors came to Texas from Mississippi. We talk with a drawl not a twang. My grandparents used to work on cotton farms.

Besides all of these facts, East Texas was the first part of the state to really be settled by Americans. So, it's place in culture should be based on the culture of East Texas, not the rest of the state.

East Texas has pine trees, antebellum plantations, southern accents, churches on every corner. The rest of Texas is just a big ol' ugly desert. TEXAS IS SOUTHERN!

Whoa there, bud. LOL You do a pretty good job in lots of areas...but learn to quit while you are ahead! I am not trying to be condecending, as my own ancestral roots are solid in Mississppi and I could not agree more with you in that Texas is Southern! My screen name oughta indicate just how how proud and supportive I am of that fact! LOL

But to backtrack, in that realm, we mostly all generally agree on East Texas being part of the Deep South. And that, as a whole, Texas is essentially a Southern state. You do good up to that point.

BUT...then you seem to self-destruct! Most of the rest of Texas is NOT a desert. In fact, very little of it is. So, bottom line is, it is not easy at times which directions you are taking! Take it easy, my fellow Texan!

[solytaire]

I consider "Eastern Texas" generally southern. This includes all of Dallas and Ft. Worth. Within this category, there are obviously stronger and weaker southern traits. I think East Texas and Southeast Texas proper, to include Houston, Beaumont, Tyler, Lufkin, and Galveston etc. are Deep South through and through. If there is an entirely unsouthern region of Texas, I would concede that it is South Texas.

Interestingly, I think of Austin as something unto itself. However San Antonio is quintessentially Texan, and as such, has some inherent southern character, because Texas itself has some southern characteristics.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by West of Encino

I'd say the El Paso area is more Western. The rest of Texas is Southern.

Except South Texas which is becoming less and less Southern each passing year.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

...still, with southern characteristics. I doubt there's any corner of the state that's completely devoid of any southern culture altogether.

El Paso/Trans-Pecos region. Catholic, Desert, Hispanic Majority, what's Southern about that region?