Poll: is Texas the south?

[Heavy_Handz]

A state boarding new mexico is the south?

From the border of New Mexico all the way across the state to the eastern most part bordering Louisiana is a 12 hour drive. I do consider East Texas as the south for sure.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

delaware is the upper south

I posted this in another thread on another topic but this passage states what was/is considered the "South"

 

[the cool]

texas is the most southern state on the map besides florida.

 

[Conan]

texas is the most southern state on the map besides florida.

We are obviously not speaking about geography here

Otherwise Hawaii would take the crown here

 

[Supper]

@Just Meh

Thing is you had cotton and cattle on both sides of the Chisholm even during the time of slavery, but obviously one was predominant over the other depending on what side of the trail you were on.

But, AFTER slavery many freed black slave laborers of the cotton country in east TX took to the cattle driving industry as they saw the lifestyle as offering more freedom, fulfillment, prosperity, and dignity than working as sharecroppers picking cotton. Many would later come back home to East TX and work on or even own cattle ranches themselves. The Settlement of Texas city in Galveston County which was founded by black cowboys who made their money on the chisholm driving cattle to buy the land to form a community is probably the best example of that.

Also the oldest black owned century ranch in TX, the taylor-stevenson ranch, is in Houston.

TSHA | Harris County

 

[Money Be Green]

Yea you hear how them nikkas talk

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Yea you hear how them nikkas talk

Texans have one of the deepest southern drawls I've ever heard

 

[Biscayne]

@Just Meh

TSHA | Harris County

Had no idea Texas City was founded by black cowboys.