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In their defense, Texas is not like most other states. It's essentially its own region of the country... and its as far more diverse than most other states.

Texas is roughly the size of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas combined. It also has roughly 3x the percentage of Hispanics living there and 2x the percentage of Asians living there compared to those other five states all combined.

Texas also has four metro areas with 2 million+ residents (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, & Austin)... while the entire rest of the SEC footprint has only six (Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, Miami, St. Louis, & Kansas City). You could also argue that 5 of those 6 are on the extreme fringes of footprint. All 3 Florida cities are south of Gainesville. St. Louis and Kansas City are new to the footprint, and on the extreme northwest side.

Yes. I'm sure people look at those numbers for us and figure everyone knows everyone already and it's hard to meet new people. There are certainly some large high schools in Houston and DFW that feed heavily but over four years I lived with kids from different parts of Houston (Sugar Land, Memorial), Dallas, Ft Worth, San Antonio and Midland. The state is so big with four major metro areas and a lot of other small cities that you still end up meeting people from a lot of different areas

This post was edited on 4/12/16 at 2:05 pm