Top 5 most southern towns or cities?(excluding border towns) (Houston: home, high school)

[SoulMane979]

I'm from Hearne and I must say that other places in central Texas have a very different culture and feel from us.We have a very unique dialect to only be a town of 4,000,our Black population is 44% which is rare for towns in Texas considering the large hispanic pop. in the state,and we have southern chains like Dixie Cafe and even Piggly Wiggly until the name was changed about 10 years ago.Anytime I'm in places like austin,killeen,or san antonio people always seem intrigued by the way I speak and swear I'm not from Texas.This is sometimes flattering,but other times people say it in a completely offensive manner.I have hung out with friends from alabama in austin and had waaaayyyy more in common with them than austinites.Other than places like Beaumont and Texarkana who would obviously have southern influence,where would you say some of the most southern towns in the state are.

[7ry1an3]

Houston and South East Texas has a different dialect than the rest of Texas. When i lived in SA ppl always knew I wasn't from around there

[Nairobi]

I would hardly say that large black percentages in Texas are rare; especially in eastern Texas.

[DanielWayne]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

I would hardly say that large black percentages in Texas are rare; especially in eastern Texas.

I grew up in SE Tx (Beaumont-Pt Arthur-Orange) and this is definitely true for that area. My high school class was about 45% white, 45% black, and the rest was everything else, including me. Same thing for SW Louisiana I'm pretty sure.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

I would hardly say that large black percentages in Texas are rare; especially in eastern Texas.

Yep.

[llmrkc07]

Originally Posted by DanielWayne

I grew up in SE Tx (Beaumont-Pt Arthur-Orange) and this is definitely true for that area. My high school class was about 45% white, 45% black, and the rest was everything else, including me. Same thing for SW Louisiana I'm pretty sure.

Yep, in Port Arthur my class was 70% Black, 15% Hispanic & 10% Asian and then everyone else. I can count on my hand the number of whites that went to my school.

[SoulMane979]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

I would hardly say that large black percentages in Texas are rare; especially in eastern Texas.

I'm sorry,I meant majority Black which is rare and I said excluding cities very close to the ark or lousiana border(beaumont/port arthur/etc...)As far as towns with at least a 1000 people there aren't that many.(Hearne,Hempstead,Calvert,Barret,Ames,San Augustine,Beaumont,Port Arthur,Missouri City and Lancaster are some of the only ones).That's only one of the aspects I named.I mean the way people talk,cook and interact.I just want to know where else in Texas I can come and expect the same type of cooking I grew up on in Hearne.Nothing stays the same forever and my town is not as lively as it was when I was young.Small towns are on their last rope in America and I just want to find a little bit of home home elsewhere if I can.You know...juke junt blues playing on a friday night with a nice lil cup of brown liquor.I'm being nostalgic and I'm only 27.Old folks raised me.

[An0nym0us88]

I don't know what kind of dialect in Hearne has (Must be part of East Texas?) despite going through there several times.

When I worked at the store in Tyler, I've had several people from smaller towns in East Texas ask if I grew up in Tyler or East Texas which is weird because I grew up in East Texas. I don't think I have much southern accent even when I went to the Northeast, people didn't even notice if I'm not from there. I was expecting them to say something if I was from the South or something.

Heck, I have a hard time understanding East Texas or Southern accent and I'm from there!

Anyways, you asked "Top 5 most southern towns or cities? (excluding border towns)". That is subjective. I would have to say any small towns in deep East Texas or Southeast Texas being the most southern.

[soletaire]

Most southern non border Texas towns:

1.) Marshall

2.) Beaumont

3.) Hunstville

4.) Lufkin

5.) Bryan

Ive always wanted to make the distinction that there seems to be two very different kinds of "Central Texas"...One seems to be the Central Texas of Bryan, Hearne, Marlin, Giddings, Brenham, Waco etc. And then there seems to be the Central Texas of Austin, Killeen, San Antonio, Fredricksburg etc. To me, it seems that the Austin, San Antonio, Killeen portions of Central Texas feel decidedly less southern, and more hybridized and multicultural than the rest of central Texas and the further you get away from the Brazos Valley area, the less noticeably southern it gets.

[Nairobi]

Killeen, I think, is a bit of an anomaly, though. The military presence pushes the black population to 30%+, which isn't at all common for places west of 35. It's not Waco or Cameron, but it's still different from Marble Falls and Kerrville.