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View Poll Results: which city is it?
Dallas 5 11.63%
Houston 8 18.60%
Amarillo 3 6.98%
Lubbock 7 16.28%
San Antonio 15 34.88%
Austin 5 11.63%
Voters: 43. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-15-2009, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Yeah I agree with this...there may possibly only be a few places in Houston that fit his criteria for great cajun food. But there really is a noticeable cajun influence among Houstonians. It may not seem that way to someone who is from Houston and has lived there their whole lives. Or someone from SW LA. But coming from a region outside of SETX/SWLA, the cajun imprint is pretty noticeable. Its on par with, or just behind the Latino influence in Houston imo.
Well it depends. You do in fact have a lot of Creoles and such, and other Houstonians with roots in southern Louisiana (i.e. Beyonce), but you also have a lot of people with roots in East Texas, North Louisiana, and other southern states. Personally, a majority of people from Houston I've met were just generally southern.
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Old 11-15-2009, 05:29 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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My old instructor down in Houston was from Louisiana & he'd make the best damn boudain I've EVER tasted. He runs a food catering business full time now.
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Old 11-15-2009, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Personally, a majority of people from Houston I've met were just generally southern.
The majority of Houstonians I've met aren't Southerners at all, they were from foreign countries.
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Old 11-15-2009, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Texas
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The majority of Houstonians I've met aren't Southerners at all, they were from foreign countries.
Well we obviously run in different circles.
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Old 11-15-2009, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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The reason that Tex-Mex isn't so big in the Golden Triangle is because that area is still what Houston used to be: a southern town with not much Mexican influence.

I can imagine. That must have been awhile ago, before I was born... because looking back in my elementary school yearbook, there were plenty of Hispanic kids in the outskirts of Houston back in 1983. I can imagine what the core of the city was like back then.

In many ways the GT feels like it's about 20-something years behind but really seems the least like 'Texas' versus other regions I'm familiar with. Deep East & Deep SE TX both seem rather isolated from the 'Texas Plex' triangle. Once you get to the Neches and Sabine Rivers things noticeably change.
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Old 11-15-2009, 07:10 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Well we obviously run in different circles.
What area of Houston are you in that you meet all these said Southerners, Baytown or Conroe? LOL

I'm talking about the Houston I know such as the VERY diverse SW side of the city where I used to live/work & the inner loop. You sure won't find any Southerners there unless you're reffering to people from Southeast Asia, or South America
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Old 11-15-2009, 08:18 PM
 
Location: Texas
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What area of Houston are you in that you meet all these said Southerners, Baytown or Conroe? LOL

I'm talking about the Houston I know such as the VERY diverse SW side of the city where I used to live/work & the inner loop. You sure won't find any Southerners there unless you're reffering to people from Southeast Asia, or South America
Well I'm going to be honest. Most of the Houstonians I've met/known are black and born and bred within the city. Most of them are either from the SW side or from the NW and NE sides of town (if you want "in your face" southern, that's where it is).

I also attended Lamar Univ where many if not most of the students were from the Houston area, and half of them were as country as they come.
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Old 11-15-2009, 09:08 PM
 
Location: New Mexico to Texas
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Putting Amarillo and Lubbock on there while Forth Worth or some other cities size of Amarillo is big time bias. Don't know why you put Lubbock or Amarillo on there.

Definitely only OP's poll only.

cause there needs to be a city from the panhandle(Amarillo, Lubbock), a city from the central part(SA and Austin) and East TX (Houston) and Northern (Dallas), all represent a different side of TX. I didnt put El Paso in there cause to me, it isnt like TX, its more like New Mexico or Mexico.
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Old 11-15-2009, 09:16 PM
 
Location: New Mexico to Texas
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what I mean by true TX lifestyle or culture is-

example- in New Mexico the eastern side of the state is more like TX, the Southern part has more of a Mexican influence and the Northern part of the state is more Native American,Spanish,adobe,chile,turquoise, and more true New Mexico feeling, all these areas also have different landscapes and style of people.

so, which city in TX would you say has that true TX vibe.
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Old 11-15-2009, 10:06 PM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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The Poll choices are lacking. Where is Fort Worth?
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