I’ve been trying to think of what European country might compare to Texas, so I wonder if dopers more familiar with Europe might want to compare.
With a long coastline of sandy beaches and barrier islands, maritime activity, as in international shipping, commercial fishing, shrimping, pleasure boating and seismic recording, is important to the economy. Oil and gas production is, as well, both on and offshore. Ranching and farming are prevalent throughout almost all of the rural parts of Texas.
From the piney woods of East Texas lumber country come south to the Big Thicket, where that major ecosystem encounters two others, the swamps of South Louisiana and the Coastal Plain. As we travel down the Coastal Plain we encounter, depending on which way we go, the beginnings of Mexico’s Gulf Coast or the Hill Country of central Texas that approaches the Edwards Plateau. Beyond that we find either the Davis Mountains in our southwest or move northward into the Great Plains that encompass much of West Texas and the Panhandle. We’ve got a lot of wild, open country.
We’ve got ~65 people/mi², but we’ve also got several big cities. So, population densities vary from 3700+/mi.² in Harris County to <1 in some West Texas counties.
So, contrast and compare,
Oh ** Sofa King**, we’ll see. You gonna piss on Texans again?
New York - fun = England
Florida = Greece - History
France (food) + Spain (history) + Italy (topology) = California
Monaco (prices / 1000) = Nevada
Colorado - Coors = Austria
Texas = nowhere on this planet
There is a lot of German ancestry in Ohio. Farms and forests in roughly a 2:1 ratio in Ohio. Don’t know about Germany. The hills in the south east part of Ohio are comparable to hills in Germany, I think, maybe, I don’t know. Similar weather, maybe, too. I’m too tired to check.
However in all the debate as to whether Turkey is eligible for entry to the EU no one has pointed out that the US would fail the human rights criteria.
LOL, I would have thought Texas was more culturally like Iraq. This is from a former Texan. Loud-mouthed, arrogant leaders, oil everywhere, wacko far right religious leaders, and a prison population destined for execution. Well, I guess Iraq puts down their prisoners faster.
