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Date Posted: 23:43:11 07/16/07 Mon
Author: Travieso (Texas is a whole other country)
Author Host/IP: cpe-66-25-163-185.austin.res.rr.com / 66.25.163.185
Subject: Texas is not part of teh south!!!

I have just read the article claiming that Texas is considered part of the "old South". With all respect, I cannot agree. Demograpically, historically, and geographically I think this is far-fetched.

Let me tell you a bit about myself. I am a true Texan. My family came here from France when this was Mexico, and they married many native-American women. They settled the Gulf Coast (notice the french names like La Marque, etc). So, I don't know how far my family has been here. Later, they mixed with Irish and Scots.

While Randy Hill claims southern heritage, this is a minority of Texans. Firtly, most White texans have a lineage of Germanic and Eastern European stock, unlike the british stock of the majority of whites in the "Old South". Catholicism is the largest religion in Texas, not Baptist like in the "OLD south".

Texas Food is Southern? UH, I have been to the south and it was nothing like what I ever grew up with. I did not grow up eating "fried" everything. IN fact, it is hard for me to recall a southern dish. We grew up having tamales for Thanksgiving. I grew up eating Nopalitos, homemade tortillas, and chili. When I went to North Carolina, people I met did not consider me a Southerner. They think Texan, like myself.

Okay, since I have lived in Austin for 20 years let's talk about music. Austin has been made a music mecca. Why? Because Willy and Waylon and the Boys found Nashville, the South, too conventional and constraining. Remember, this is "country and WESTERN" music. Willy Nelson and the boys brought back the western aspect of the music which is more individualistic, less constrained by social mores, and much more liberal. For god sake, he wrote a song about gay cowboys and he's a pothead!!!

Okay, business listing with the name "Southern" or "South". Well, that doesn't necessarily denote a culture but a geographic point. I tell people I grew up in South Texas, not because I grew up the "Ol' South"- far from it. I say that because Texas is so huge that I want to give them a geographic point of reference.

The Civil War? Texas did not see civil war battles, yet Missouri did see a lot of battles and it fought for the South. Missouri would actually be more accurately depicted as part of the South in a historical framework.

No, I am not a Southern. I am a Texan. Always have been, always will.

thanks,
Travis

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