Texas being excluded from the South (West, Eureka: living, design, best)

[Bo]

Spend some time in West Texas. The dissimilarity from the South will make more sense. If you haven't spent time in every major city in the state, you're not getting the whole picture.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by BrianGC

Because Texas is so huge, I honestly can't mentally put it in just one region. East Texas, where the largest population lives, is fitting with the south, but west Texas really belongs in the southwest.

This.

[Kaszilla]

Originally Posted by Bo

Spend some time in West Texas. The dissimilarity from the South will make more sense. If you haven't spent time in every major city in the state, you're not getting the whole picture.

But even west Tx has a southern western feel in parts. Not just totally south western.

[southernnaturelover]

Beaumont is in the South. El Paso is not.

[eddie gein]

Before the civil war only east Texas was settled by white southerners. The western half of the state was still Indian country. The east part is southern. After the war, the western half of the state was settled mostly by white southerners but in a manner that much of the rest of the west and plains were settled. Railroad extension etc. The economy in the western part of the state was much more plainsey and southwestern than east Texas. But for sure, most anglo/African Americans in west Texans have their roots from the south yet they have adopted a lot of plains culture.

[sean1the1]

Majority of the state is geographically not Southern, and the stereotypes are a western southern version they are far from strictly southern one wouldn't consider Texas like Mississippi, but New Mexico can be very similar.

[Iconographer]

"Transitional" States:

Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
West Virginia
Maryland

West Texas no, East Texas yes.

[PosadasJ]

(Note: I live in rural Texas.)

I've recently completed a project, including input from several C-D users, that divides all 3,142 counties of the US into the smallest number of regions that local residents could still find plausible, and based on ecoregions and economic ties rather than politics or "culture." The criteria for the project are listed in the link below. But the resulting map provides a way to make sense of how Texas, vast as it is, can be accurately placed in multiple regions — based on national criteria, not just unique-to-Texas criteria.



Home page for the "United Regions of America" map: https://www.jeremyposadas.org/regions

Link to my criteria: https://jeremyposadas.org/2018/07/ur...rules-criteria

[Mutiny77]

That Appohzarka region definitely needs to be broken up. Not seeing how any part of NY and PA belongs in the same region as parts of SC, AL, and GA.

The only part of NC that could legitimately be considered mid-Atlantic is the Outer Banks. Categorizing half of the state as mid-Atlantic is extremely off-base.

Way too much of the Piedmont is mistakenly categorized as the Deep South.

Also not seeing how DC and Baltimore are in different regions.

[DubbleT]

Long, long ago I spent quite a few years bumping up and down the gulf coast. My time in Houston had some similarities with my time in the deep south states, but there were more differences than similarities. The music, the food, the fashions, to name a few.