Where is the Western boundary of The South?

The edge of Texas.

You can tell you crossed it when you stop seeing football stuff. Bumper stickers, shirts, hats, flags, etc

East Texas. For me it is when I quit seeing pinetrees. The rest of Texas has a different feel to me. It is definitely not West Coast, Midwest, yankee, etc. It is Texan. I feel the same way about Oklahoma.

When you see more Mexicans than black folk you've gone to far.

The Mississippi River.

East Texas

When you get in the 979 area code.

I would say there's a north/south line where the pine trees end and that line is just west of Houston, and barely encompasses College Station as it makes its way north towards eastern burbs of Dallas. It's still a little swampy north and east of Houston.

I don't think there is a bright line, but if I had to pick somewhere, I'd say the road from Dallas to Austin is a pretty good spot. Everything East of Dallas has at least something of a southern feel, but once you go west of Dallas and Austin it feels more western to me.

spot on

For some reason when i visit and think of Dallas/Ft Worth I think of the West instead of the SOUTH.

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For some reason when i visit and think of Dallas/Ft Worth I think of the West instead of the SOUTH.

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This and the traffic sucks.