Aine. your point is well taken, and I was more or less joshin' y'all because I know how proud Texans are of their heritage, and Texas brigades served valiantly in the Confederate armies of both West and East. But you have to admit that West Texas has more in common with the geography and culture of New Mexico and Arizona than it does with Virginia and South Carolina. Maybe because I was raised in Kentucky, Texas always seemed like a land way out West full of Cattle and Cowboys. And I just never figured y'all for grits and hamhocks.