Challenging the notion that South Texas isn't Southern (Dallas, Atlanta: home, university)

[Foamposite]

Originally Posted by C24L

It came from the Czechs, Polish and the Germans.

Did it come to Tejanos first or Mexicans in Mexico? I heard that Mexican Banda music has German origins.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by Foamposite

Did it come to Tejanos first or Mexicans in Mexico? I heard that Mexican Banda music has German origins.

Norteno is the one that has German origins.

[Marty Janetty]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Norteno is the one that has German origins.

Yes banda doesn't include the accordion.

[C24L]

Originally Posted by Foamposite

Did it come to Tejanos first or Mexicans in Mexico? I heard that Mexican Banda music has German origins.

I think it was possibly in Mexico first in the form of Norteno.....i think Tejano may of came later than Norteno.I am not for sure.

[supfromthesite]

Tejano music (Spanish: música tejana), also known as Tex-Mex music, is a popular music style fusing Mexican and U.S. influences.[1] With elements from Mexican-Spanish vocal traditions and Czech and German dance tunes and rhythms, particularly polka or waltz,[2][3] the music is traditionally played by small groups featuring accordion and guitar. Its evolution began in northern Mexico (a variation known as norteño).[4]

From wiki

[TexasBard79]

South Texas is a cesspool of Marijuana, racism, family abuse, and victim-blaming. It is TOTALLY Southern!

[C24L]

Originally Posted by Foamposite

https://youtu.be/g9lkeoxJRxA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaYO3BkJzw

Artists from Corpus Christi and San Antonio, respectively. Both have noticeable Southern accents and performed in Southern music genres.

Granted, these are both very old songs. But my point is that at least traditionally, there is a pretty good argument to be made for San Antonio, Corpus Christi, etc. as being part of the South. On the General US forum, people seem really opposed to the idea of South Texas being the South, because there are too many Hispanics there. It's silly though, because someone like Freddy Fender was Hispanic but very Southern culturally in my opinion, even if he was also a Tejano.

To me San Antone Corpus and the Valley are a lot different than the stereotypical South like LA and MS.I think the only part of the state that really matches the traditional Southern image would be East Texas but hey dats just me.

[rdz1979]

Originally Posted by Foamposite

Harlingen looks Southern to me

https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1878...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1843...7i16384!8i8192

yes with all those mesquite and palm trees. Are you seriously trying to say the RGV is culturally southern? To be honest, the Balkan Peninsula looks more like the South than deep South Texas. By your logic it must be Southern too.

[supfromthesite]

RGV is culturally midwestern more than southern. Most of the Anglo people that moved there were from the midwest, not the south like the rest of Texas.

Even to this day, from what I can tell people often say "you guys" instead of "y'all".

[Nuclear Bear]

Originally Posted by Arkay66

The only part of Texas that is culturally part of the Deep South is East Texas. The rest of the state think of ourselves as just Texans. As for "southern" accents, there are seven distinct English-language accents recognized in Texas, and only one is considered "southern." The rest are kind of Midwest or are Western.

Now I'd like to know, why is this so important to you? What value accrues to labeling Texans as anything other than Texans and US citizens? I'm asking as a native Texan who had great-grandfathers fighting on both sides of that unpleasantness known as the Civil War, and whose accent is not "Southern."

This right here.

East Texas is the only part of Texas that is really Southern.

20 years ago I spent a summer working in Georgia and the Deep South was a total culture shock to me...as someone that had grown up in Texas.

Southern accents, nascar, and confederate flags are not things you see that often in Texas unless you are in East Texas.