Off-topic Re: is texas south?

[A. Vine]

OK, Derrick, your Texas history is a little different from mine.  As far as I
know, Texas as a state did not secede.  There were soldiers who fought for the
Confederates.  There were also Union supporters.

The culture I grew up with as well as the dialect is nothing like that of the
South.
Really.  And the Texans I know would not appreciate being lumped in with
Southerners.  We don't sound alike. Our culture and attitudes are not similar.
Linguistically speaking, Texas is truly not the South.

Please feel free to call a Southerner (a cracker) a Texan and see what sort of
reponse you get.

This is a tedious topic for this list.

Derrick Chapman wrote:
>
> Texas had slaves before it declared independence from Mexico.  That was part
> of the problem that caused the American Texans to fall out with the Mexican
> government.
>
> Texas was very much a Confederate state--not just "pockets" as you
> suggest--as a whole.  It was as much a Confederate state as any of the
> Southern state.  There were Civil War regiments from Texas, Civil War
> battles in Texas, Civil War POW camps.
>
> I'm not making this up.  It's history.