Culture of Texas

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The culture of Texas is very diverse, influenced by tremendous waves of migration out of the American North and West, in contrast to its eastern neighbors in the Deep South. It includes the regionalisms and distinct cultural identities of German Texan, Tejanos, Cajuns, Irish, African American, and White Anglo Southern enclaves established before the republic era and admission to statehood.

Texans will tend to acknowledge the five major regions, East Texas, Central Texas, North Texas, South Texas, and West Texas as regions within the state defined by urban centers, and differing cultural norms. The Texas Triangle, anchored by Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and San Antonio, is an interstate corridor between the three major Texan cities closest to the geographic center. These cities anchor three different cultural regions of the state.

Texas is bordered by the western prairies, the Deep South, and Mexico. It is influenced by Hispanic, African, and Anglo traditions. The state includes island communities from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Mexico, southern African American and White Southern populations, as well as historic tribes of Native Americans. Texas is placed in the Southern United States by the United States Census Bureau.^[1]