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The Tex-Mex flair connects Houston with the rest of Texas, so yes, it isn't really baseless. Absolutely nothing separates Houston from the rest of Texas, aside from its coastal location (Which is why it is in the coastal bend like Corpus Christi). Yes Houston is steeped in Southern culture, but said culture was seasoned with a "Tex-Mex" flair, just like the rest of Texas.
Houston is hot and humid, true. Corpus Christi is also hot and humid, as is Brownsville. But all three Texas cities get less rain than the rest of the Gulf Coast cities in other states.
P.S: I didn't see that much rain in Houston this summer. Looks like the deserts of Mexico have in influence on Houston.
Culture separates Houston from Texas, not saying it's not Texan because people in Houston are certainly prideful Texans (kind of annoying sometimes). Tex-Mex is an influence, doesn't mean that's a reason it's less southern. Again, South Louisiana is "seasoned" by the French, and New Orleans by Africa, Caribbean, Italy, Spain, etc yet it's still solidly southern.
Houston weather felt exactly like Baton Rouge weather. Except less hurricane parties.
Wrong again. New Orleans receives a mere 8 extra inches of precipitation. That's equal to about three extra days of heavy downpours. Hardly enough to call the weather "different".
Anyone who's spent a considerable amount of time in both cities knows that the climates are virtually identical.
Houston also receives more rain than Atlanta.
No Houston averages only 45 inches of rain per year, while New Orleans gets 62 inches. Big difference. Sometimes the average creeps up to 49 inches (same as Atlanta) because storms like Allison and Ike get averaged in its data.
Anyways, I was comparing the Texas coastal cities to other cities in the Gulf coast region in other states, not to mountainous, inland cities like Atlanta. In fact, you just proved my point about the aridity of the Texas Coast; Houston, a city right on the coast, is averaging, at its wettest, about the same amount of rainfall as a city well inlandon a mountain. The Texas coast (except the Golden Triangle) is relatively dry compared to many areas in the south.
Culture separates Houston from Texas, not saying it's not Texan because people in Houston are certainly prideful Texans (kind of annoying sometimes). Tex-Mex is an influence, doesn't mean that's a reason it's less southern. Again, South Louisiana is "seasoned" by the French, and New Orleans by Africa, Caribbean, Italy, Spain, etc yet it's still solidly southern.
Houston weather felt exactly like Baton Rouge weather. Except less hurricane parties.
And I experienced the weather from Corpus to Brownsville to McAllen. All are humid, just as Houston is, and just as Baton Rouge is.
Much of Houston is in the Texas Coastal Bend like Corpus Christi is in. Only the areas towards Huntsville, on Eastward towards the Golden Triangle has the exact same southern culture you see in Loisianna. You have ti cross the Sabine River.
Culture separates Houston from Texas, not saying it's not Texan because people in Houston are certainly prideful Texans (kind of annoying sometimes). Tex-Mex is an influence, doesn't mean that's a reason it's less southern. Again, South Louisiana is "seasoned" by the French, and New Orleans by Africa, Caribbean, Italy, Spain, etc yet it's still solidly southern.
Houston weather felt exactly like Baton Rouge weather. Except less hurricane parties.
And I experienced the weather from Corpus to Brownsville to McAllen. All are humid, just as Houston is, and just as Baton Rouge is.
Much of Houston is in the Texas Coastal Bend like Corpus Christi is in. Only the areas towards Huntsville, on Eastward towards the Golden Triangle has the exact same southern culture you see in Loisianna. You have ti cross the Sabine River.
Well if you mean Huntsville and the rest of east Texas, they have the exact same culture as NW Louisiana.
Houston is a lesser extension of Port Arthur/Lake Charles.
Well if you mean Huntsville and the rest of east Texas, they have the exact same culture as NW Louisiana.
Houston is a lesser extension of Port Arthur/Lake Charles.
The Houston metro as a whole is a transition region. The eastern portions are like the Golden Triangle, but the western portions, like Sugar Land and Katy, fit in more with Corpus Christi's Texas Coastal Bend.
What city dominates the South? Oh thats no longer the topic
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