Is Texas Southern? | Hash Out - Episode 2

[@Kerryjotx]

Texas is TEXAS. But the South is our closest kin.

[@WdyWP]

Well said!

[@patriotoftruth]

That was exactly what I was going to say as soon as I saw this title

[@jackielinde7568]

I always thought of Texas as overlapping The South and The West. As a westerner who was born in Chicago, I'm surprisingly okay with that. A lot of elements of Texas Culture is Southwestern/Mexico/Spanish inspired, making it a Western state. And yet, it has a lot in common with the South. I guess Texas is Texas.

[@renees8262]

Accurate

[@MusicaTexas]

Couldn't have said it better😂

[@Stevarooni]

Bringing back old fashioned debates is a pro move, _It's a Southern Thing!_

[@rickwiles8835]

Donna should win for just being able to talk while listening to the speech jammer

[@samuelspurlock727]

oh my gosh I thought the same thing

[@kevingray8616]

Texan here. I actually thought she did the better job. I did some public addressing when my daughter was in high school. It really messed me up when I could hear myself. I was always like, "close the damn window".

[@collegebro85]

As a Texan delegate, I hereby announce Donna and Diane have a lifetime invitation to the monthly BBQ cookout 🤠 Also, the only argument needed is that we are SO huge with SO much that yes other states have their own Buccees and Whataburger, but as a true Southerner, we *shared* those like a grandma sliding you another piece of dessert despite you protesting you are already full, lol!!

[@Jaymze13]

Without finishing the video, I can tell you as a native Texan......sure, we're part of the South. We're also part of the Southwest. I've reached a point where if the South wants to accept us, that would be great. We'll be happy to be a part of the South. The culture is great, the weather sucks just like ours, the food is good and it's an overall great place, but we're TEXAS first. And I know some don't like us saying we're Texas first, but we're not overly worried about that. At least we can all agree we don't care how they do it up North. We're not perfect (neither is your state), and our weather pretty much sucks, but we're Texas, and we're proud we're Texas. And if we're not so great, why can't we keep these carpetbagging Calis from coming here? Seriously, somebody, tell us how to legally put a border wall starting at El Paso and going till it hits the Gulf Of Mexico. 🤔🙄

[@aubreypassey6086]

Your a south central state

[@Jaymze13]

@@aubreypassey6086 I can see that. 🤔 I've never heard a state referred to as a central state, but I can see that.

[@tejaswoman]

I was with you until you started crapping on people who move here from other places. Lifelong Texan, family's been here since 1846, and so long as we contain East Texas we will be part of the South. But if other folks want to move here, let 'em.

[@aubreypassey6086]

@@Jaymze13 It’s what Wikipedia says

[@Jaymze13]

@@tejaswoman OK. I guess the area you live in isn't exploding with people moving in. And that's OK whether it is or not. These are just opinions. Without going through ever comment on this video I'm willing to bet a lot of people crap on Texans and that's OK too. Just opinions. Have a little fun with it.

[@brianmiller9382]

I grew up in East Texas. Tyler, Longview, Marshall, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Beaumont, etc. is as southern as you can get. But as you go west in Texas, it gets less southern and more western. Florida has a similar issue. Northern Florida is very southern, but the further south you go in Florida, the less southern it is. Texas is in the South, just as Florida, but only part of the state is southern, not the whole state.

[@HOOKEMHORNSGAL1978]

@brianmiller9382 you and I might be neighbors! We’re certainly from the same part of East Texas and I currently live in Northern Florida.

[@jessbee]

I grew up in Lufkin, moved all over Texas and the country, moved back to Lufkin. East Texas is definitely southern. The rest of Texas is not.

[@treskrever8590]

I grew up in El Paso, and even though it is as far West that you can go, I always considered myself a Texas girl AND a Southerner.

[@dizfunctionaldes]

I never really thought about Florida that way, but you are so right. If South Florida isn't part of the South what is it? The Caribbean?

[@thekingofmoney2000]

@@dizfunctionaldesculturally it’s more like Latin America.

[@dukedaniel1524]

Texas is Texas first.

[@alfredorundell1989]

every state is their state first, Texas is southern

[@kaleb7636]

@@alfredorundell1989 no

[@daleberry3861]

Texas is Texas! We share things like Buc-ee's with the south.

[@noyou9379]

As someone in Arkansas yall can have Buc-ees back since there is nothing that great about it.

[@vtaylor21]

As well as Blue Bell and Dr. Pepper. They claim those are Southern, but they came from Texas. They even like brisket, even though that is more of a Texas thing.

[@mericayeehaww]

@@noyou9379 That’s borderline blasphemy

[@kaleb7636]

@@vtaylor21 We don't claim anything

[@bonnieparker9584]

Having grown up in El Paso and since living in Houston with relatives who have lived in every region of Texas, this is my opinion. Texas is not just southern. There is nothing about El Paso that is southern. The generalization by southern advocate are consistent with southeastern Texans where cotton plantations existed. As the most populated part of Texas, they assume their experience represents all Texans. Specifically, weather. There are portions of Texas that do get freezing weather every winter, panhandle and the mountain area of the State. Houston, Dallas, and Amarillo have awful weather but El Paso weather is great. Yes it gets hot in the summer but it is dry heat and the evenings are wonderful. It also gets extremely cold in the winter but it almost always warms up noticeably in the afternoon. Finally, you always have sunshine. El Paso counts and Texas is not southern it is multi-cultural and therefore unique. I love all of Texas and characterizing Texas as one culture is like saying the same thing about the U.S. We are all Americans but we are not the same.

[@theirmom4723]

As a Texan...Texas is Texas...however, it loves it's Southern Cousins.

[@mollyvee]

Not me, a Northerner, getting really invested in this and verbally reacting to points about the southernness of Texas. I'm loving this series!

[@nil2k]

As someone who grew up in Texas, everyone I knew growing up in Texas always considered Texas its own thing. From that point of view it divides the southeast from the southwest. Also, thanks for pronouncing pecan correctly.

[@GeezyCarnivore]

As a Texan I consider myself a southerner. We joined an alliance with the south a long time ago.

[@WyattRyeSway]

I’m a Texan and I very much agree. Tho I live in rural Texas, east and south of Dallas

[@txhuntsman]

I am also a Texan and I consider myself a Texan first, a Texan Second, a Texan third, and Texan always. Everything else is whatever.

[@GeezyCarnivore]

@@WyattRyeSway I’m 30 mile west of Ft. Worth.

[@texasbeast239]

We did, and the North was basically afraid to fight us on our soil too.

[@dizfunctionaldes]

If the South tried to succeed from the US again I know Texas, or atleast the Eastern half, would be coming with us, so that's Southern enough for me 😂

[@tertalksevents2day]

Every true Texan knows that we are TEXANS 1st, & Southerners 2nd!! 😊

[@flournoymason8961]

I lived in Texas for a number of years. I came there from Georgia where I was born. The main difference I noticed between the Southeastern states and Texas is Texans favor beef BB over pork BB. Texas have a southern like accent and overall I felt at home there and when it was time to return to Georgia I felt sad. However I also lived in Ohio and then Pennsylvania which are definitely not southern and gain when it came time to leave I was sad. I'm basically an American who likes America no matter what part I live in. I forget to mention California when I lived in Davis for a short while then Alameda. No offence to those places but I was happy to leave there and return home to good ol GA.

[@brendaokuda2158]

Texas is indeed it's own South. We are the last bastian of our Republic. I live in East Texas & we eat Southern food & drink sweet tea. But depending on where you live you will get a different lifestyle. I'm with Diane. Texas is so much more, but we're definitely kindred spirits with the rest of the South.

[@jamesanthony8438]

"What is Texas? Is it considered a part of the South? Or is it its own thing entirely?" Texas. It's like a whole other country. _waits for the Texas Travel board to send him a check for his work promoting Texas tourism_ =)

[@alexandrialucius8351]

I think Donna should have won but congratulations to Diane.

[@Sindalis1]

Is Texas part of the south. Yes. Is Texas is own thing. Yes. Texas is Texas, and Texas is part of the south. Something can be more than one thing at once.

[@stacyjohnson5388]

We are Texan first and Southern second

[@Kerryjotx]

Venn diagram!

[@txsportsfreak02]

The shape of texas is the best shape because it's shaped like texas.

[@tejaswoman]

​@@txsportsfreak02My 87 year old mama says she always felt sorry for the people from square and rectangular states because they can't recognize their state(s) out of context. 😂

[@agbook2007]

@@txsportsfreak02This is true! 👍

[@ettazay5088]

We're our own kind of South here in Texas. 🤣

[@CptPhatassma]

Texas is the oversized belt buckle that connects the south and southwest

[@fireline4765]

I'm personally on team independence, long live the Republic of Texas!

[@justjason7662]

You know we keep trying to vote for that every year but it never goes anywhere.

[@KatieGarcia101]

@@justjason7662 The best way to have Texit is to keep telling Texans they can't do it!

[@justjason7662]

@@KatieGarcia101 heck yeah!

[@Bob-mz7qr]

The reason we have this debate is due to marketing. Following the Texas centennial in 1936, some Houstonians began marketing Texas as its own thing to separate it somewhat from the South. Prior to this there wasn’t any debate whether Texas was southern or not. It was and is. It just has its Texan flair, like the south Louisianan’s do as well. The South has a number of regions and cultures unique and different

[@ryanupchurch9683]

Nevermind Texas was its own republic for ten years. Ya it must be a marketing campaign 90 years ago

[@ralphjames1211]

Tell me, how are the Edgewood Rams in Edgewood, Maryland? One of the best teams in The South? I hear Baltimore is one of the shittiest cities in The South!!! I always called Maryland and Delaware the Northern South and the Delaware Memorial Bridge the point where The South ends and the Northeast begins!!!

[@daniel0atk]

To me it depends on what part of Texas you're talking about, because it's so big and so many cultures. East Texas is like the rest of the south, central Texas feels a lot like Oaklahoma (which is debatable whether it's the south) and West texas feels a lot like Arizona.

[@ulkesh78]

She did an excellent job ignoring the speech jammer!

[@ItsaSouthernThing]

She needs to teach the other contestants 😅

[@youdidntseeanything8589]

Dang that was so good, I can't STAND speaking with a delay.

[@txaggievet]

East Texas is very Southern, the rest not so much

[@TexanFlag]

North east Texas is southern, west Texas and north Texas is cowboy country, and all the places below San Antonio are more Hispanic

[@jangray1086]

I so agree.

[@shauksgamer814]

Texas is SOUTHERN but we do things our way! Texas should be its own country! Born and raised in TEXAS

[@LawrenceJohnson-oc3vz]

It was at one point.

[@khathaway414]

In fairness Texas is Texas first, Southern, second and then American.

[@ccarlton4511]

💯

[@heidiwhitman6870]

Texas fought for the South in the Civil War, so that settles it for me, that they are Southern. But they do have their own culture too, which varies from region to region, even city to city. Some people say Dallas is Southern, Fort Worth is western, San Antonio is Mexican, Houston is coastal. 🤷‍♀️

[@sevinstorey4365]

Being Southern has nothing to do with the “civil war”, and it’s called the War between the States.

[@eleanorlaurent2303]

Bless your heart, Adam, for making sure everyone sounds cultured when desert is served this Thanksgiving 🩷

[@rickwiles8835]

Love Diane's poses they are so much fun

[@CortexNewsService]

You know she'd nail those

[@DutchMcGinnis]

Texas is a Confederate state hence southern. Having lived in Tx for many years, I can, most assuredly, say it is Texas.

[@DutchMcGinnis]

@@HappyLife693 I do not believe so. A few states held out like Virginia and North Carolina.

[@HappyLife693]

I stand corrected. I looked it up. Texas was one of the first states to join. So, your premise has a strong argument. 👌

[@DutchMcGinnis]

@@HappyLife693 Thank ya kindly :)

[@marybethvanvooren9267]

Loved this debate. It explored a bit of what makes the South and Texas so culturally rich and diverse. Looking forward to the next episode. Good job everybody! 🫶🕊🙏🏻🦉

[@djv.8424]

Your first graphic with “opening statements “ is misspelled. But still love it!

[@juliayoung537]

😂 Texas is like Florida... they are in a league of their own 🤷‍♀️

[@annachis07able]

Agreed😂

[@BraedenPearse]

How dare you lol

[@bowlnow824]

I couldn't agree with you more

[@carlpeterson8182]

Except Texas is much better than Florida. That is because Texas is the USA of the USA. Texans think Texas is the best in the US.

[@jackielinde7568]

I think, in this case, you've pissed off a lot of Texans. I mean, I don't think ANYBODY wants to be compared to Florida. Even Mississippi, a state known for taking a jackhammer to the floor to carve out a trough to drop the bar in and cement over it in a way to prove you can always lower the bar further doesn't want to be compared to Florida. I mean, I live in Arizona, and as of late, a lot of the actions of my state's "Duly Elected Batch of Idiots" has a lot of people comparing us to Florida, and none of it in favorable ways. (I swear I love my state, just not the people running it.)

[@MRKNIGHT]

I’m from Texas and thought it was in the south until I lived in Memphis and Savannah. Texas is like a cousin. Technically a part of the family (the south) but they don’t live in the house and are in another city.

[@Stevarooni]

Missouri straddles the Mason-Dixon Line...mostly South of it, but it does tip North of it. 😁

[@WyattRyeSway]

It’s kinda southern

[@beckyowens2586]

Oh goodness, hearing yourself on a delay makes it SO hard to talk. Props to Donna for getting through it so well. I also appreciate the angle Diane chose. Instead of arguing that it's NOT southern, she propped it up by saying it's it's own thing. I agree with Diane. You can claim that Texas is southwest, but East Texas and West Texas are like two totally different places. Like Illinois vs SOUTHERN Illinois. If ALLLL of Missouri is considered southern, when it would cover more than half of Illinois, then the bottom eighth of the state should count. I'm just gonna start calling it Western Kentucky till they agree to adopt us.

[@jamesanthony8438]

I absolutely hate it when someone joins an online game I'm in and their stupid mic picks up their speakers and I hear myself delayed. Throws me off my game and confuzzles my already damaged brain. =/

[@CullenRTerry]

There was a transfer from out of state in my high school, and he was trying to get to know a bit about our school. He did this by asking my algebra teacher questions and the school. One was “is this a football school?” My algebra teacher said “every school in Texas is a football school.” My Algebra teacher went to Georgia & Alabama. (He prefers uga)

[@ralphjames1211]

Tell me, did you join the football team?

[@Kerryjotx]

Sorry. Buc-ee’s is in Colorado now. We Texans are appalled 😩

[@VersieKilgannon]

I wish I had seen your comment before I made mine 😅

[@L1berty1776]

Right just saw a sign buc ees hates truckers too. They kinda sold out

[@alanjones3874]

Well if it`s in Colorado , you`ll sure not see me there !

[@Bowdy_Up]

As a Carolinian, y’all’s brisket sucks anyway. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jamespyle777]

Even in Missouri and it's still better in Texas.

[@GhostSot]

Texas IS Texas -- We've got our own thing.

[@davidhickman647]

Texas is not southern. Texas is not western. Texas is Texas.

[@alfredorundell1989]

very much southern

[@DorianParpari]

I could not think if there is an audio delay. How did she tune that out???! That's a superpower right there!

[@letthewookiewin5997]

That was fun!! Both of you are lovely. Dianne understands Texas; It’s a whole other country! Donna, well done overcoming the speech jammer👍. Speaking of speech, Texas is so vast we have distinct accents. My maternal grandmother from the Hill Country and my paternal grandmother from East Texas had VERY different accents! (Both were native Texan). Then there’s West Texas…whoa..that’s a whole other thing too😂 I wish we could all sound like our boy Matthew McConaughey!

[@cindybaker7153]

From a Fort Worth girl: If a person from any southern states go anywhere in the world, they are known as Americans. Texans in other countries are identified as Texans. Why you ask? We Texans carry a pride that no other state carries. Texas history is mandatory in school, we once had our own President, we can succeed, our flag is the most waived flag in the world in more countries than any other flag, it is the only flag that can be waived at the level of the American flag, the flag is a lone star, our capital is 14 feet taller than the us capital, we have the Alamo, we have Texas attitude, our own accent, Texas music, we are Texas proud. We are in the south but we are our own identity. My professor, a preacher, in college in Missouri , would tell freshman that he was led by God to minister and lead them to the promise land, Texas.

[@kaleb7636]

Ew

[@Boone_Dogglers]

West Texas and the Panhandle are Western, but the rest of the state, except for Austin, is Southern.

[@unclefranky8503]

Austin isn't Texas

[@aubreypassey6086]

@@unclefranky8503Austin is in Texas and therefore part of Texas

[@aubreypassey6086]

Sorry Texas is a south central state geography doesn’t lie regardless of you Texans think

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

@@unclefranky8503 Austin it Texas at its BEST. Also, far southern Texas has a strong Mexican component, I would say it's very Southwestern, more than straight-up Western.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

South Texas is very different, only east and maybe north Texas are southern.

[@littlejonathorn6860]

“Texas or Taxes?” I heard 👂 Taxes. love this show. Team Talia all the way!

[@courtneymoseley7568]

Yes! As a native Texan, I agree with your ruling and am honored to say “Yes, Texas is southern.. but we are also so much more!” ❤ 🤠 ❤ 😉

[@deethompson2854]

Texas is the only state who can secede from the US. Plus people are nice, however different. Texas is Texas who is the cousin to southern states. God Bless Texas❤❤❤❤.

[@annachis07able]

Love having a KZbin channel to watch centered on the south😂

[@MalfisByMidnight]

Born and raised in Texas. Texas is Texas. We're both the South AND Southwest... parts of both mixed. I identify more with the South, myself, than the Southwest. I love the South. But Texas IS the South and more. Both spoke very well, and it was a hard-fought debate. Well done all!

[@dramaturge231]

Adam, you’re right on the pronunciation of pecan but not on the ruling! 😂

[@leohalivan861]

The correct answer is yes. If the South was a family in a car going on vacation, Texas would be the cool uncle driving a restored 1978 Dodge Power Wagon in front of that car.

[@Jon7763]

you should give it to Donna just based off how well she did with the headphones..... dang

[@jennifertonge-martin3110]

I think Donna made the better argument. I mean, fried food AND Buckey's...

[@Bowdy_Up]

Buc-ee’s and their brisket sucks

[@Sevonthomas]

@@Bowdy_Upyou have been reported for misinformation

[@kevingray8616]

@@Bowdy_Up Come on. For "gas station bar-b-que" it's pretty damn good. It doesn't try to compete with all of the other BBQ places we have in Texas.

[@ServeGod1st]

As a displaced Texan (still living in the south) YES it is southern !

[@ssgwright7419]

Blessings From Texas🤠

[@billsharp3786]

Missed our favorite southern Grandma.

[@Raystratos]

Considering how big it is. TX is split in the middle meaning the east side is considered southern while the west side is considered west or southwest. So depending on what part your are from.

[@petecrumpton55]

Historically Texas is its own entity but definitely affiliates more with the south. Living in Texas I would say East Texas is definitely southern the rest of Texas & the cities not so much. Texas is Texas.

[@TheScentDetective]

It lasted TEN years!

[@txhuntsman]

Texian checking in. Texas is first and foremost Texas first, Texas always, and we are whatever we feel like being and we always feel like being Texas.

[@kaleb7636]

You keep that

[@themaninblack7503]

I like how everyone is laughing and having a good time.

[@RainyDayz1991]

To say Texas is "so much more than just Southern" is a little insulting to us as Southerners 😏😜

[@sevinstorey4365]

As an Alabama born Southerner, no it’s not. We have our own thing and we let other people have theirs.

[@erikzaniadelvillar5825]

Omg, Diane did poses and MOOD swings 🤣🤣🤣 10:03

[@pama.6410]

This is a fun series! Keep it up. Seems like it was a tie since Texas definitely IS Southern and definitely is NOT not Southern, but it is also more than just Southern because it is also part of the Southwest.

[@janellejanjan]

This should be good. I’m from North Carolina and I’ve had cousins try to fight me on this issue. 😂

[@janellejanjan]

3:21 Appalachian State University just beat Texas A & M

[@janellejanjan]

Ok. 6:52 it’s southern Midwest. Basically flyover

[@janellejanjan]

11:44 Donna is kicking this in the butt but now I feel like I’m tripping

[@janellejanjan]

15:46 there is fried food at the Wisconsin state fair apparently allegedly y’all stop that argument

[@jordannsolomon5412]

Texan here! I would like to point out that we Texans are the only ones that I know of that have a pledge of allegiance to our own state flag! Pretty strong point of Texan pride that goes towards the argument Texas may be southern yet so much more than just part of the south!

[@JDoelker]

AL Pledge: "Flag of Alabama I salute thee. To thee I pledge my allegiance, my service, and my life."

[@tswain92]

The way I see it, is Texas is a southern cousin. They're still in the same family, but a different entity. But as someone in the comments said, "Texas is Texas".

[@ralphjames1211]

Hey Adam, lovin your hazel eyes, the perfect shade of green eyes, underneath your glasses!

[@monorail4252]

If a part of Texas is within 100 miles of Louisiana it's southern. Excluding any major cities

[@deadpoet4]

Two years? No. Ten years? Yes.

[@tomaslequesne1366]

I’m just here from California, eating popcorn, watching y’all Texans debate on this

[@beagleissleeping5359]

Northerner here. I've always seen it as there's the South, and then Texas and Florida down there, too. Kentucky is kinda in the middle.😂

[@ralphjames1211]

as are Maryland and Dullaware!!!

[@TxFestConsultant]

I moved to Texas from Atlanta more than 40-years ago, and I agree that Texas is more than Southern.

[@OkGoGirl82]

The Texas motto is Friendship. 🙂

[@lsh3rd]

Wow... not one mention of sweet vs unsweet tea?

[@texasforever7887]

Because sweet tea is default in Texas as it should be.

[@lsh3rd]

@@texasforever7887 was nowhere to be found last time I was in Dallas.

[@kevingray8616]

@@texasforever7887 You must be young. Sweet tea is an abomination that came to Texas in the late 80s/early 90s (in Houston at least) with the arrival of chain restaurants from the South. Memory serving, Po' Folks or Grandy's was the first one, but they were later followed by Chik-Fil-A and others. Check out the Texas Monthly article called "The Sweet Tea Line: Is sweet tea a thing in Texas or not?" Now I spent my fair time in Arkansas drinking sweet tea, but it just makes me more thirsty. When it is hot as Hell in Texas, the last thing I want is sweet tea.

[@kevingray8616]

@@lsh3rd At least they're doing something right. I was in a small place in the far outskirts of Greater Houston and had tea recently. They have really good country cooking. Do you think they asked me if I wanted sweet or unsweet? Hell no!

[@BarnacleBoy42069]

​@@kevingray8616if you have to ask if sweet tea is a thing in your state, it's not southern. And that's ok, y'all are still country. Just not southern.

[@CortexNewsService]

I didn't think Texas being Southern was up for debate.

[@Beccajoy9]

Im not sure. 🤔 How would you define the term southern?

[@ItsaSouthernThing]

Well first you... It's more abo- Biscuits and Gravy?

[@sevinstorey4365]

Collards, fried chicken, manners. God.

[@DarkWolfSimsGirl]

As someone who moved from a northern state to a Texas small town, they were full of some of the rudest and most judgmental people my family has ever met. It took us three years to meet some decent people and when I finally moved out of the house for college I was left with some serious PTSD from the severe bullying I experienced.

[@PitifulDelay]

I'm exactly 1 minute in and the debate has already ended. Diane cake out and said that Texas is so much more than just southern. She admitted that it's southern.

[@vtaylor21]

The debate ended right there, lol. The question is is Texas Southern?

[@cutclown2033]

Texas is not the South. Everything East of Houston is very southern. When you goto placss such as south Texas and west Texas, it touches Mexico just like California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Also, west amd south Texas is very dry and has the desert just like the other western states I named.

[@rickwiles8835]

Football does rule in Texas and football is as southern as it gets

[@myitbos1335]

Oklahoma is now in the SEC. And that Just nullifies any Southern argument.

[@WyattRyeSway]

@@myitbos1335….oklahoma is kinda southern

[@ralphjames1211]

so is NASCAR and hillbillies and good ole moonshine!!! Yet I have yet to hear about Texans running into moonshine stills in Texas!!!

[@rickwiles8835]

@@ralphjames1211 Only because Texas is a big place there are plenty of stills in Texas.

[@ralphjames1211]

@@rickwiles8835 what about hillbillies, especially those dressed up like stereotypical hillbillies who go round sayin' "You sure have a purdy mouf!"?

[@PatrickTower-ln7oi]

You should have the debate topic be about Florida in a future episode

[@tyrant-den884]

Oregon: "Ar- Everyone else: "NO!"

[@GenXfrom75]

Donna should’ve won 😂

[@UmmYeahOk]

The only reason we still observe March 2nd is because it’s just too darn hot in July to do anything outdoors.

[@LidiaPerez-di8dy]

Texas is Texaslike Southern

[@marinaking2431]

I love this game show. Keep it up!

[@ProfessionalDefenestrater]

We're our own thing. Can't touch Texas.

[@kaleb7636]

mhm..

[@acelm8437]

As a native Texan I think Diane went a little overboard with the "Texas is big" thing (everyone knows that already), but I didn't get Donna's argument that Texas is a collection of small towns. I've never been to the Deep South so I can't speak for the culture there, but what really makes our state distinct is the CITIES. Texas has FIVE of America's 15 most populous cities, while the rest of the South combined has just two (Jacksonville and Charlotte). I have been to all five and each one has unique qualities. Dallas is a finance town with suburban sprawl, Houston has a rich oil and space culture, San Antonio and Fort Worth feel more western and laid-back, and Austin is where the hippies hang out. (Not to mention El Paso, which isn't even in the same time zone.) From what I've heard there's not as much variety in other Southern cities; outside of Atlanta or much of Florida, they retain more culture from the surrounding areas. East Texas does have more small towns with a prototypical Southern vibe, but the cities and suburbs define Texas more than anything.

[@RobertMcCue-l8v]

Texas is also an economic power state with more big business moving to Texas then any other southern or other state

[@alexiabartholomew133]

great debate about Texas

[@tracyhuckaby5876]

Born and raised in Canyon, Texas, in the Panhandle. Home of the 2nd largest canyon in the USA. Which most of the rest of the state doesn't know about or forgets about. The Panhandle is way different than other parts of Texas. Here in the Panhandle, we can have temperatures below 0 and above 100. We have been known to drop 70 plus degrees in 1 day. I hear all the time in doesn't snow in Texas, but here in the Panhandle, it snows multiple times during the winter. Texas is not surrounded by the Gluf it's only on one side. Most Texans don't have a southern drawl. I feel we are more than Southen.

[@peanutmwo6001]

As a Texan, we're our own thing period

[@RebeccaWeaver-bk5wn]

There is no O in pecan!!! Funny as always though!

[@TameraJacobs]

I'm enjoying this series.

[@FaeryPeople]

As someone who grew up in Texas, I would have voted yes it's southern. Also, I've never heard of March 2nd being a holiday.

[@SM0R3S]

I have never once celebrated March 2nd. Never had a day off from school or work for this day as well.

[@batmarlowe]

I'm not from Texas, but I live here. I've lived in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas. The part of the country that Texas is in is...Texas. It's just not the same as the rest of the South. Similar, but different.