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Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Texas
although I must admit bias
This sort of sums up my feelings as to why. Texas stands alone as its own entity.
Texas is not like the mountain states, it's not like the West, like out in California. The people are certainly different. You can't associate it with the South. We don't have Southern Belles. We don't really fit in with Mississippi, Georgia or even Louisiana. We're not the Midwest; we're not like Chicago. And we're certainly not the Northeast.
It's really its own unique culture in the state of Texas.
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Originally Posted by GLS2010
no. most of the states in the US have the same culture as NY or CA.
True, but that's probably due to the media and pop culture. I think an argument could be made that there are plenty of things about these places that make them unique, like Hollywood, the media, surfer culture. However, with NY I don't know if it's so much New York State as it would be NYC that I'd consider unique.
This is an easy one: The Great State of Texas! Hell, we were our own republic--with our own Army & Navy, even--for nine whole years, from 1836-1845. And there are still more than a few Texans even today who only half-jokingly still want to secede from the Union. Texas is a state of mind, not just of geography. What other state connotes such a readily-recognized stereotype as does Texas? (Even if our incredible diversity of inhabitants renders said stereotype only partially accurate at times?) And no other state even comes close in providing the many entrys into our language, e.g. "As big as Texas" or referring to someone as "Tex." A whole culture has evolved from our state, along with a whole genre of movies (westerns) and also music. The Dallas Cowboys are referred to as "America's Team."
Hawaii. They got their own language with their own alphabet amongst other things.
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