Southern drawl origin? (non-member query)

[A. Vine]

Derrick Chapman wrote:
>
> And (it really should go without saying) you'd find so much geographical and
> social rank variation in both North and South that the use of the terms
> becomes ill-advised.  A Vermonter and a New Yorker are as distinguishable
> from each other as a Texan and Virginian.


Texas is not the South, phonologically and culturally.  It is the West.