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Nacogdoches texas scenery11/24/2023 ![]() In Houston they'll clearly recognize Louisiana contributions to they're culture and even in Dallas they might recognize Oklahoma for past contributions but since East Texas is still in Texas then you know how that goes. Like I hear some Houstonians and Dallasites speak about older family members who migrated to these cities from East Texas yet might not acknowledge the contributions East Texas gave to these cities because it's still in Texas. I think Dallas residents are like that as well. And if you happen to eat crawfish you refer to them as Mud Bugs. Crawfish boils are not a common thing in the Piney Woods,lol. That separates us from them because we don't have that same exact culture. Southeast Texas has it's own culture with closer ties to Southwest Louisiana and Cajun/Creole culture. ![]() You'll get southeast Texas but it's not the Piney Woods. If you watch a local commercial in Huntsville or Conroe even Jasper you won't get that. You hear commercials with references to East Texas everyday. I mean you see billboards with East Texas on them. And anyone who really spends some time deep in the region will pick up on it too. But very few people in those cities I mention group Huntsville in that same category. Now I have heard of Huntsville being grouped in with East Texas when it comes to Sam Houston playing SFA in the battlefield of the Piney Woods. All the towns attached to these cities or nearby these cities or in between them would be consider East Texas. That's Tyler/Longview/Marshall/ Lufkin/ Nacogdoches/Texarkana(which would be on the edge of east texas). Like me and most people I grew up around consider East Texas anything in between or close to the 6 "major cities" in ETX. Even if it isn't an official East Texas state line once you enter and leave the area. But the notion of where the line is drawn as to where East Texas begins and ends doesn't vary that much amongst East Texans. I think it mostly varies to people who are not from the region. ![]() When I explain East Texas to people from out of state, the way I describe it is: generally everything from Texarkana to Galveston, broken down into North, Deep, and South-east Texas the greenest, most southern, and most humid part of the state.but you have purists who only include the Piney Woods outside of metro Houston. Others don't include any part of Southeast Texas at all. Some people say it's everything east of 45, while others say it's wherever the pines start. That alone proves that there's no solid definition of East Texas, since it obviously varies from person to person. It's a similar situation to what you have with states like Georgia and Louisiana. ![]() I always choose to look at East Texas as if were its own state with several parts: the north, the mid-section, the south, and the "different" big city. It's an affinity that exists within the city even today. Many Houstonians, however, are unaware of our cultural and historical relation to East Texas, though. Mainly those with no real ties to the region or who are simply unfamiliar with it altogether. I've noticed this with most Texans period. Honestly, I think I remember watching one of those exact same news stories last was then that I was able to confirm that for whatever reason, Houstonians seem to consider east texas as being anything generally north/northeast of them, between Houston and Dallas.which was weird to me too.but I think with houstonians, east texas appears to just be another way of saying "some country little place to the north of here".they make no distinction between the various areas of east texas ![]()
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