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Originally Posted by jd3189
^^^ Looks like Texas is the biggest transitional state between East and West. And that map makes a lot of sense. The Western US is drier overall and shaped by mountains, valleys, deserts, and plains. The Eastern US is wetter, more humid, and more green overall, being surrounded by more bodies of water ( Great lakes, rivers, Gulf of Mexico, etc).
By those definitions, I would say Amarillo is one of the Easternmost Western cities and Dallas could be considered one of the most Westernmost Eastern cities
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I would agree pretty much. I see DFW as very midwestern in precip and vegetation, although warmer on an annual average basis. I see Midland-Odessa as very western climate-wise (very dry), although within those cities there are a lot of leafy neighborhoods. El Paso, however, is like Tucson, with a lot of adobe homes, mountains, and desert. it's the only city in Texas that looks southwestern.
Austin is transitional, with midwestern precipitation, but a unique blend of east and west regarding the scenic terrain of the hill country, that begins within the city on the west side, just west of downtown.
East Texas is no different than the rest of the south, with rolling to hilly piney woods. If you're in Tyler-Longview or Lufkin, for example, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference from being in the Carolinas (e.g., Raleigh-Durham) as far as landscape. Houston is very wet, partly pine forest, partly swamp, partly coastal plain. The sprawling burbs look pretty much like any U.S. burbs. Parts of the inner loop look like NOLA with housing styles (parts of the Heights), other close in areas look very southern, others very eastern. There are neighborhoods in the piney woods areas of the city proper where it would be difficult to tell that you aren't in the east somewhere.
I was longwinded on this, but yes, transition is a good way to state it.