In my experience very few Texans outside of a line from about Texarkana to Tyler to the Gulf claim to be southern and actually hold southerners and the south in about the same regard as the morons in the NE and Pacific Northwest do. There is a heaping pile of Texas west of that line and you can't sling a dead cat in the first half of that pile of Texas without hitting a damned Texan....the second half of that pile of Texas you might have to tote a dead cat 70 miles before finding ANYONE to hit with it, Texan or not. They simply are not southerners and more than 2/3s of the state ain't in the south. And they don't give a frick....in fact most are happy they ain't in the south and they ain't southerners.

There are some seriously telling tells about Texans which prove they ain't southerners and Texas ain't the south. Outside of their mistaken ideas about pigs and hickory trees being the basis of BBQ and losing to Ohio State. neither of which is an issue in the actual south. Texans drink beer and dance. Seriously. We drink beer in the south also but our grannies didn't, openly, and don't, openly. This is not so in Texas...everybody drinks beer and does so openly and without a bit of shame or regret. It is just something that Texans do and no one thinks poorly of them for doing so...in the south folks will drink beer but they will think poorly of anyone else who drinks beer. The same is true of dancing. Folks in Texas dance. Any community of any size has a dance hall where live music is played and folks drink beer and dance....folks in the south don't dance because they are afraid people will think they fricking standing up....not so in Texas. If 10 Texans, 5 men and 5 women. get together and drink 30 beers and there is some music to be heard at least 4 of the frickers are going to be dancing...and doing so pretty well. If you ain't in a bar in the south you are highly unlikely to find anyone dancing at all....in Texas they do it at county fairs....and its a BIG damned deal. Grown arse men in Texas can and do dance regularly...where most men in the south can't dance a lick and wouldn't do so on a dare for a small fortune. Not only do they dance but they appear to enjoy doing so. Apparently coonasses will do this also. Folks in Alabama? Not on a dare LOL....

Texans are also more prone to cos play than southerners. Dressing up like a cowboy in Texas is a real thing...grown folks will attend funerals and weddings and social events dressed up like a 5 year old and do so without an ounce of self doubt. You couldn't pay a grown man in the south to participate in cos play outside of hunters and fisherman who seem to pay more attention to what they are wearing than what they are doing.

These are just a few observations I have made while studying Texans in their natural habitat. I have also found that they simply do not give a frick if anyone thinks they are strange. If they are dressed like Roy Rogers, drinking beer and two stepping they absolutely not only think its normal they are having a big time doing so. Its almost admirable their lack of self awareness but it does indicate they ain't from the south......