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10-30-2009, 11:58 AM
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Well, I've never known anyone from Jersey or NY to pull any punches when discussing Tejas, so if we're going to play "Mine's better than yours" we may as well play for keeps.
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I definitely agree! There are two specific people on City-Data that talk NYC up all day long and they talk Texas down all day long. It doesn't matter how much BS they talk and how many times I point out that what they're saying is so far from the truth it isn't even funny they just keep on. 90% of what they say isn't true and never will be true but they keep on trash talking anyway. They remind me of the Rain Man. No matter how many times I correct their BS and their so-called facts they just keep rambling on talking nonsense.  |
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10-31-2009, 10:41 PM
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I grew up in Pampa, and I have lived in many other parts of the country including Louisiana. Pampa is more like northern Ohio, where I lived for 12 years, than it is like Louisiana. I know many of you will disagree, but that is how I felt living those places.
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11-01-2009, 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by James2496
I grew up in Pampa, and I have lived in many other parts of the country including Louisiana. Pampa is more like northern Ohio, where I lived for 12 years, than it is like Louisiana. I know many of you will disagree, but that is how I felt living those places.
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You say this because Pampa is more midwestern than it is southern? |
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11-01-2009, 08:47 AM
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You say this because Pampa is more midwestern than it is southern?
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And I agree with him. |
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11-01-2009, 10:14 AM
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^^
I am trying to find and paste that "map" I have of settlement patterns into Texas. While the majority of Texas was influenced by Southern considerations, the two noteable exceptions are the trans-pecos area and the upper panhandle. The latter of which starts about the Pampa area (on an east-west axis). It definitely did have a noteable influx of settlers from the lower Midwest, which gave it a diffrerent "flavor" than the rest of the state.
I don't know that there are any exact boundaries, but just north of Amarillo seems kinda apt. Again, I will try and find and post the map. Interesting stuff....
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11-01-2009, 10:08 PM
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And I agree with him.
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Yeah I agree with that. I've been to the Pampa, Borger area. It's the very northern part of the panhandle. I used to live in Lubbock. Lubbock to the OK panhandle is the great plains of TX. When I think of the great plains I think of the midwest (northwest TX, the OK panhandle, KS, NE, SD, ND, IA, IL, etc). I've been to Kansas and IL and those states are very flat for the most part. I associate farmers, flat landscape and conservative values with the midwest. The great plains of TX has all three of those. |
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11-09-2009, 02:26 PM
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It is my opinion that Texas is a southern state.
-texasexplorer.
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11-09-2009, 11:54 PM
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Texas is the South. The whole enchilada. Trust me. I think most of these arguments are silly, except I never understood why the lower peninsula of Michigan and Ohio are considered midwest. Geographically and culturally they're east. But Texas is very southern. EVEN Pampa.
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11-10-2009, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by AmarilloDude
Texas is the South. The whole enchilada. Trust me. I think most of these arguments are silly, except I never understood why the lower peninsula of Michigan and Ohio are considered midwest. Geographically and culturally they're east. But Texas is very southern. EVEN Pampa.
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Texas is Southern. It is no more Midwestern than Oklahoma or Arkansas, which is essentially zilch. |
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11-10-2009, 07:41 AM
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Fall is here!!
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Originally Posted by AmarilloDude
Texas is the South. The whole enchilada. Trust me. I think most of these arguments are silly, except I never understood why the lower peninsula of Michigan and Ohio are considered midwest. Geographically and culturally they're east. But Texas is very southern. EVEN Pampa.
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ROTFLMAO!!! That is just too funny.....  |
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