Posted Dec 1, 2020, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by KennyDubz
Dallas and Houston have a southern drawl accent.
Houston is along the Gulf Coast and is certainly not a western city. Houston is tropical. Dallas is in the plains.
Reno, Cheyenne, Denver, Albuquerque, Tucson, Phoenix, Boise, Billings, Salt Lake, Sacramento are western cities. Dallas and Houston are not.
The NFL team name has nothing to do with whether or not it's in the west. There are cowboys in Nebraska. Cowboy culture is not specific to the western cities. It is specific to open range lands, some in the west like California, some in the Great Plains.
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Dallas and Houston consider themselves TEXAN. I'm not being a smart ass when I point that out. It's just a fact. Somehow Texas embraces a regional identity that is specific to the state itself. You can argue all day about whether it is Western, Southern, or something else. It is all of those things depending on where you are in the state, but there is an overarching Texas identity that really defines the place.
Last edited by austlar1; Dec 1, 2020 at 4:29 AM.
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