Other thing I notest is Florida I see more the wannabe gangster look.
I don’t see this in Dallas ,Fort Worth or Garland.
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I don’t see white people or black people doing that there like I do in Florida.
I don’t see the sagging pants or baggy clothing like I do in Florida.
Adding to what Rick said about Texas not being an important part of the Civil War: Austin was 1 of only 2 Confederate capitals not captured by Union forces. (Tallahassee)
Fort Worth is ahead of Dallas in art museums. Their Modern Art Museum has very old roots (under a different name). Amon Carter set up a museum for his Western art collection but it now has a wide-ranging American collection. The Kimbell is a gem.
On another topic, I’ve seen the Confederate flag here. But any Texans who want to express regional pride can just fly the Lone Star…
Texas is a unique state.
But it’s absolutely not so unique to be considered its own country.
We still speak English, eat McDonald’s, and love us some football.
Ah’m fixin’ to tell you it can affect your speech, barbeque is better, and we love us some Dallas Cowboys. 
Didn’t we settle this in 1865?
You do realize the south today is not the south of 19 century? Much of all southern customs and accents are mostly all gone in cities because of people moving there.You not going find to many here comes honey boo boo types in the cities.
And Dallas probably has more in common with New York than to Alabama.
I learned it the hard way of southern language ATV= three-wheeler, or four-wheele ,Shopping card = buggy , pop = Soda , fringe =refrigerator , dinner = supper ,spreckels = frosting on a cake. And lot more.
Well the city less of that.
What the fuck? People are so fucking rude. This happened to me when I was in grad school in the enlightened Northeast. Not that extreme, but people would often say to me, “Ew, George Bush is from Texas.” I had to point out to them that the Bush family were carpetbaggers from Maine and Connecticut, and we had a pretty good listing of our own homegrown Texas pols: LBJ, Barbara Jordan, and Ann Richards, for example. (Yes, I know we have plenty of homegrown crackpots as well, but those are my favorites.)
My bona fides: born in West Texas, lived all around the country and the UK as a kid, returned to Central Texas as a teen, went to college here, moved away for 12 years, returned 7 years ago back to Austin. I’m pretty Texan but I’ve been a lot of places. Both coasts and Florida and Georgia.
Yes, “Texas is a whole 'nother country.” As it’s been detailed above, Texas was an independent republic and that colors a lot of the state’s character. We have a lot of geographic and cultural diversity. West Texas, the Panhandle, the Gulf Coast, East Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, and Central Texas have very different vibes. And the cities have their own ways. I lived in Houston for a bit after college, and it was a very different vibe (except for Montrose, which felt like a mini-Austin, only weirder).
But Texans don’t really identify with Southerners. We don’t like our neighboring states a whole lot, especially Oklahomans (it ranges from snobbery to all-out rivalry). The Confederacy legacy, though, is alive and well. There is a metric shit-ton of Confederate memorials all around the state capitol, for instance. But you don’t see the stars and bars everywhere, though. We have the mixture of cultures - Mexican, Spanish, German, Czech, African American, and more recently, South Asian and Southeast Asian. Most young Texans are city dwellers, we don’t twang (a whole lot) and while a lot of us have ropers and hats, most probably don’t.
If we’re far from home we might see a connection to a Louisianian or Mississippian. But not here. We’re Texas, as my employer says in an ad.
My favorite quote about Texas is here:
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I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.
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Do yourself a favor and check out this brilliant BBC documentary hosted by Rich Hall about Texas.