Poll: is Texas the south?

[SadimirPutin]

I have no opinion on whether it is geographically because I imagine that debate could go on for quite a while...

CULTURALLY THO................Texas is very much culturally everything people associate southerners with

 

[Biscayne]

Facts. Texas is huge. El Paso is also dumb far from Houston/Dallas and feels more related to Arizona.

As a kid, we'd drive back from Florida to Texas, and as soon as we entered the state from the East(like around Beaumont Texas) there'd always be a distance sign for El Paso and it'd say something like


El Paso 846 Miles

As a kid, that blew my mind. As an adult, that blows my mind. What's even crazier is, Florida has similar extreme distances between cities. You can get from Beaumont to El Paso in 11hrs. Pensacola to Key West is around 12-13hrs. Florida(unlike Texas) is deceptively large. Florida(like Texas) sits in two timezones.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

It’s wild how that works out considering VA gave birth to the South...literally, culturally, etc.

People question it now IMO because the urban areas, particularly the parts that are associated with DC, skew most people’s perception. I don’t see rural VA ever not being Southern.

Even with that the rural parts of Delaware feel southern to me.

I traveled to Tysons Corner, VA where the wealthy folks live and it felt like I was in Westchester, NY.

People using the subway or metro like a northern city as well lol.

But yea Rural areas will def be southern.

 

[Biscayne]

Yep....El Paso is closer to California than it is to far East TX.

Far West TX is like New Mexico. Dallas/Houston is the south. Now once you towards the Valley past San Antonio....that's just north Mexico basically.

Yep. You can get to Los Angeles CA from El Paso TX in the same time you can get from El Paso to Houston TX.

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

Wasn’t Delaware part of it also?

No. Neither was maryland, because they were north of the Union Capital.. (washington D.C)

 

[UberEatsDriver]

As a kid, we'd drive back from Florida to Texas, and as soon as we entered the state from the East(like around Beaumont Texas) there'd always be a distance sign for El Paso and it'd say something like


El Paso 846 Miles

As a kid, that blew my mind. As an adult, that blows my mind. What's even crazier is, Florida has similar extreme distances between cities. You can get from Beaumont to El Paso in 11hrs. Pensacola to Key West is around 12-13hrs. Florida(unlike Texas) is deceptively large. Florida(like Texas) sits in two timezones.

I didn’t realize how far El Paso was from Houston/Dallas till I randomly checked the distances between Texan cities.

I was like wtf.

But someone mentioned El Paso is close to Cali. Not really cause my app tells me that’s an 11 hour drive

 

[Cave Savage]

Texas is a huge state. I think of the Eastern half as being part of the South

 

[Cave Savage]

How is Texas not the Deep South?

The parts near Louisiana seem like they're culturally deep South. But calling El Paso or Lubbock the Deep South doesn't seem right

 

[UberEatsDriver]

As a kid, we'd drive back from Florida to Texas, and as soon as we entered the state from the East(like around Beaumont Texas) there'd always be a distance sign for El Paso and it'd say something like


El Paso 846 Miles

As a kid, that blew my mind. As an adult, that blows my mind. What's even crazier is, Florida has similar extreme distances between cities. You can get from Beaumont to El Paso in 11hrs. Pensacola to Key West is around 12-13hrs. Florida(unlike Texas) is deceptively large. Florida(like Texas) sits in two timezones.

I didn’t realize how far El Paso was from Houston/Dallas till I randomly checked the distances between Texan cities.

I was like wtf.

But someone mentioned El Paso is close to Cali. Not really cause my app tells me that’s an 11 hour drive

 

[I'm Blackman]

yes nikka

 

[Cave Savage]

Facts. Texas is huge. El Paso is also dumb far from Houston/Dallas and feels more related to Arizona.

Have you been there yet? I wonder what it's like culturally compared to the other big cities

@Pigeon in the future I don’t think VA will even be considered South anymore like Maryland.

Many southerners feel like they’re already in the east coast when they are there.

The DMV portion of Virginia feels very Northern.

I met a dude from Roanoake the other day (not even a DC suburb) and he had no accent. But I have to imagine the Appalachian part will feel Southern for the forseeable future

 

[invalid]

Is Texas the south. Why or why not

The south is every state where slavery was permitted and supported the Confederacy in 1865, including Missouri, which was legally made the south by an act of Congress via the Missouri Compromise.

 

[GreenGhxst]

yes because map and cardinal directions

 

[im_sleep]

The south is every state where slavery was permitted and supported the Confederacy in 1865, including Missouri, which was legally made the south by an act of Congress via the Missouri Compromise.

Close thread.

Texas was gaining 100,000 slaves a decade at its slaveholding peak, how the fukk isn’t it the South?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Have you been there yet? I wonder what it's like culturally compared to the other big cities



I met a dude from Roanoake the other day (not even a DC suburb) and he had no accent. But I have to imagine the Appalachian part will feel Southern for the forseeable future

Never been to Texas before but I’m planning to go to both Houston and Dallas in one trip.

As far as Virginia goes I also notice the AA artist from there have no obvious drawl in their speech.

Chris Brown, Missy Elliot, Pharrell & Trey Songz do not have obvious southern accents. I’m not going to include the clipse because they are from The Bronx originally.

West Virginia feels 1 million times much more southern than VA