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Gene GeRue wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:22 AM, <eureka AT hctc.net> <eureka AT hctc.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > I'd be curious to know where all of you think Texas falls.
>
> Southwest. With northeastern fringes of South and Midwest.

I think Texas is South.  It is in the western part of the South, but not
 Southwest.  Are you saying it is Southwest because of the land-the
dryness, the desert?  It is a different terrain, yes, but the people who
live there are more like the people who live in Atlanta than the people
who live in Phoenix, and in fact, I believe that Houston is Atlanta's
sister city.  I don't see your Midwest connections at all.  To me, it is
as South as it's neighbor LA.  I would even say that part of Oklahoma is
in the South.
I know that those of who live in southern Missouri like to dissociate
yourselves with the rest of the South, but I've been there a few times,
from Branson to Springfield to Ava to West Plains to Joplin to New
Madrid and other places, and I would say that southern Missouri is
definitely 'The South'.  In parts more north, up around the midstate,
from the STL suburbs to Columbia, KC and that area---, I'd call that
more midwestern, like central Ill or Iowa.


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