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I live in metropolitan Atlanta. It gets hot, humid and there is rarely a breeze. I know what it is to live in such a climate. That is why find Dallas a bit more comfortable than Atlanta. I have been to Dallas for myself. It was 102 degrees F outside and it felt more tolerable than 85 degrees F in Atlanta. In Atlanta I can sweat just by standing there.
Everybody's different, so I'm not going to say you're wrong. Dallas may have been more comfortable to you, but it sure wasn't that way for me, and I live in Houston where the heat and humidity is probably more extreme than Atlanta. You may have just happened to go to Dallas on a comfortable day in the summer. But when I went to Dallas in August, it was just as uncomfortable as Houston to me.
I used to live in Texas, Ft. Worth specifically. Made a trip to San Antonio for Sea World.
and that's ALL of texas? no.
here's what texreb had to say about east texas:
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Originally Posted by TexasReb
I don't see much -- if any -- difference -- in terms of history, culture, and topography. The ONLY thing I can think of is that East Texas is Texas, and thus many residents may have a state identity over a regional one. That is to say, many residents of the Deep South (i.e. deep southeast) tend to more identify themselves as "Southerners" before they do as a native of the state itself. Their whole identity is wrapped up in it (the "Deep South purists").
BUT...that is about the only thing I can think of. As Lady Bird Johnson put it along the lines of: "The East Texas I grew up is the Deep South, not any different from Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama..."
Another one, from a respectable source was passed on to me by a very good friend who was public relations director at Stephen F. Austin University in deep East Texas. He told me a guy from Georgia got a history professor position. The Geogia man told my friend he expected he would be moving to the "Texas" of Hollywood western movies. That is, cowboys, tumbleweeds and deserts and cactus. Because that is what he had grown up reading and seeing (and looking forward to it, in fact, because of John Wayne and all).
Instead? As he said later "This is the Deep South. There is absolutely no difference from where I am from in Georgia and this part of Texas."
I have read books about Texas and Texas has less in common with Georgia than it does with the west. The most "southern" part of Texas to me is anything in the Piney Woods area.
I have read books about Texas and Texas has less in common with Georgia than it does with the west. The most "southern" part of Texas to me is anything in the Piney Woods area.
piney woods are not "southern", they're southern. period. hell, there are parts of this state that are more southern than kennesaw
name one characteristic of the south that you find in georgia that you won't find in texas (mainly east texas)
So it makes it true because another fellow forumer said so...
I'll be sure to be on the lookout for more highly informative threads from you in the future.
I think I just lost some brain cells.
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