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View Poll Results: City with most "Texas" flavor?
Austin 14 19.72%
Dallas 16 22.54%
Houston 13 18.31%
Other 28 39.44%
Voters: 71. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-23-2010, 07:52 AM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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I have a feeling alot of people are choosing Dallas in the poll because of its proximity to Fort Worth.
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:18 AM
 
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Fort Worth has been described as where the West begins, that must mean Dallas is where the East ends. I pick other though and go with San Antonio, large Rodeo scene and is the major city for South Central Texas, much bigger with a well defined cultural identity that Austin 70 miles up the road seems to lack.
If the east ends in Dallas and the west begins in Ft. Worth, what are the "in-between" cities like? (Irvine, Grand Prairie, Arlington etc)
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:19 AM
 
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Who in Dallas and Austin wishes they weren't part of Texas? There's a lot of Texas pride in both cities...except for the transients and transplants, I suppose.
Then maybe those transients and transplants shouldn't be a part of Texas.
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Old 04-23-2010, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Well I didn't pick neither because lots of people are just basing their choses off the stereotypical view of Texas. Texas is a very large and diverse state.
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Old 04-24-2010, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Greenville, Delaware
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It's funny, but in a total of almost 7 years living in Fort Worth I never really thought it was truly all that cowboyish. I saw that as a stereotype. Yeah, there's the stockyards area over on the North Side, but it's more a relic than anything. The rodeo is a big deal when it's in town, but that's not especially unique to Fort Worth. There's the statue of Will Rogers over by the coliseum and the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, but those things don't make the place Cowboy Central. Even though Lubbock's surrounding agriculture is farming rather than ranching, I find Lubbock to have a more pervasive cowboy feel than Fort Worth -- a lot more boots, hats, and CW music in the Hub than you will see in general currency in Fort Worth.
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Old 04-25-2010, 11:14 AM
 
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I am surprised San Antonio is not mentioned in this blog. Austin is not even in the same league as Houston or the Dallas metro area.
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Old 04-25-2010, 01:24 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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Fort Worth is where the West begins. Dallas is where the East peters out.

I'd say smaller towns have the most "Texas flavor".
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Old 04-26-2010, 04:35 PM
 
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If the east ends in Dallas and the west begins in Ft. Worth, what are the "in-between" cities like? (Irvine, Grand Prairie, Arlington etc)
Purgutory...
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Old 04-26-2010, 04:46 PM
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Location: North Texas
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Fort Worth is where the West begins. Dallas is where the East peters out.

I'd say smaller towns have the most "Texas flavor".
This is my feeling too, as a native. All the smaller towns from Fort Worth all the way to Abilene and its surrounding areas. But then again, any small town really. We even still wave to one another on the road as we pass where I'm at.
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Old 04-26-2010, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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I am surprised San Antonio is not mentioned in this blog. Austin is not even in the same league as Houston or the Dallas metro area.
Niether is San Antonio. In Texas, metro Austin and San Antonio are in their own league and DFW and Houston are in their own.
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