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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Unfortunately, the national scientific ballooning facility is in Palestine, TX. I had the displeasure of spending a summer there (and may spend additional summers there in the future...). I'd say the Piney Woods region of Texas is extremely southern.
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Glad you mentioned that. My mom's side of the family is from Palestine. East Texas is a very large region that, with all the forest and wet climate, is like the rest of the south, and is culturally very southern. Driving through that area and meeting people, you would not be able to distinguish the region from, say, the Carolinas. Parts of it are even quite hilly and pretty (e.g., Anderson, Cherokee, Upshur counties). That region, at least the trees and culture, bumps right up to the north side of Houston.