my husband and I are having a big debate he says that texas is part of the midwest b/c they have the same time zone as us we are in Illinios and I say they are southwest! can someone please help us with this stupid bet thanks
2007-02-02 09:23:14 · 14 answers · asked by cieraf 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Other - United States
Texas is southwest.. certain areas of Texas have a different time zone, it is a big state. Half the state is desert, the other half a variety of swamps in the south by Louisiana, woods in north east Texas, and plains in the north. Big state, but it is Southwestern
2007-02-02 09:26:43 · answer #1 · answered by me 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
West Texas is more like the Southwest. Maybe a strip of Central Texas is the the Midwest. East Texas is like Louisiana the the South.
2007-02-02 09:25:58 · answer #2 · answered by Steady As She Goes 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
haha, it's neither. At least not from the part of Texas I am from in the northeast. I am from the part of Texas that is considered 'The South.' The part where most of the country songs come from with sweet tea, fried chicken and Southern hospitality.
I've been all over Texas playing football and just going on road trips for fun, and my state is one with many identities. The panhandle is most like the Midwest that your husband is thinking of; while the Western side of the state is the Southwest you are idealizing. Down along the border with Mexico...the state is mostly Mexican. And it's funny, because if you go San Antonio and Austin...you will find a little bit of everything. It's great.
So Texas is a mixture of all those cultures. Neither of you are right and neither of you are wrong. But let me tell you this...don't ever tell a Texan that his state is not 'Southern.' We take that personally.
By the way, for any northerns in doubt...'The South' is not defined by the Mason-Dixon Line or the Confederate States during the civil war. It is a culture that is not defined by state lines. Just as there are different types of Texans, there are different types of 'Southerners.' For instance...you got your 'deep South' in Southern Florida, Alabama and Georgia...you have your 'mountain South' in West Virginia and Virginia and East Tennessee...'Carolina South' in the Carolinas...'River South' in Tennessee and Mississippi...the 'Cajun South' in Louisiana and Southeast Texas...and 'plain South' in Northeast Texas.
2007-02-02 17:13:38 · answer #3 · answered by sealguy77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm from Texas and it's considered to be part of the Southwest United States.
2007-02-02 09:32:27 · answer #4 · answered by ~*Tweety Gurl*~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DEFENDING INSANITY:: where is it that you reside? I am from the midWest and I assure you there are plenty of Good people who live here and are hardly cut from the same cloth you are describing. What makes us worthless people? Is it that where I live in is Madison Wisconsin, we have some of the BEST Hospitals in the Country, and some of the best schools & Universities in the country. So what are you basing this revolutionary information from, your whole 17 years of experience living on this Planet? I think you have some re-thinking to do before you make judgments on people you don not know anything about. I am a Conservative and live a Liberal State which claims to be a swing State, but I still embrace my own Wisconsinites as one of my own. Can you make such a claim? Who and what do you hold true for principles and people you support, that would reciprocate in kind if you were to need them. I doubt anyone because you obviously have judged everyone out of YOUR worthiness and abilities to contribute to YOUR personal agendas. That is sad that such a youn Lady is so biased and uninformed and unable to have an open mind and learn something new..........................
2016-03-29 02:00:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a multi-generational Texan and can definitely tell you that although we are in the Central time zone, we are a part of the American Southwest.
2007-02-02 09:25:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
When Texas entered the Union it became a slave state, part of the confederacy therefore part of the Southwest
2007-02-02 09:37:04 · answer #7 · answered by Talk is Cheap 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't see how any state directly below Oklahoma could be part of the southwest.
The real southwest is Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico,
2007-02-02 09:36:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is considered Southwest
2007-02-02 09:27:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Texas is part of nobody! Once your out of Texas your half-way home. If any thing it's the deep south, deep in the heart of Texas.
2007-02-02 09:26:21 · answer #10 · answered by LuckyChucky 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋