The evangelical shithole you speak of is what's known as Dallas/Ft Worth and the surrounding wealthy, white, privileged, neighborhoods.
San Antonio is northern Mexico. Austin is hipster central. And Houston is new New Orleans.
But all this aside. I grew up there, I love it there, it's a beautiful piece of countryside with a sky that goes on forever, and rolling hills. Crabs on the coast, enchiladas down south, barbecue in the middle. Cactus, coyotes, armadillos, and Eagles. White tail deer, wild pigs, dust, desert, and weather so hot you breathe in and it burns your lungs.
It's a lovely piece of land. True wilderness out there. It's ruined by some of the bigoted, inbred, Alamo hugging hyper Christian, loopers who inhabit the place.
The kinda people who would call me a beaner, or wetback when I was a kid. Kinda people that assume just because you're Hispanic in Texas you're Mexican. The kinda people who drive a giant truck, carry a rifle, and ride a motorcycle without a helmet because they can. The potato chip, beer swilling, back swamp swine that inhabit the south and carry this south shall rise again mentality. Who fuck their sisters, and have massive heart attacks at age 35. The kind of people who hate Mexicans but love burritos. The kind of people that don't embrace the cultural differences in the state, but get mad when they see a quincenera party in the park. Call them rednecks, white trash, or knuckle draggers. They breed like rabbits and indoctrinate their idiot buzz cut kids with the same bullshit. At least when the war was on most of them would sign up for the marines as if it was some kind of privilege and go die in a desert.
