<p>I feel like I should put in a good word for TX, at least one part of it. I spent six weeks in Austin this summer and it is an amazing and beautiful city. However I have heard that the rest of Texas is not like that. The Texas pride is certainly still present, even though Austin is considered an island in TX (a pat of butter in a sea of grits as my grandma would say). And the Texas Capitol building is amazing, though a lot of the buildings around it are constructed in a 1970s brutalist style and decorated with lone stars, which makes the whole place seem like part of soviet russia with the exception of the Capitol and the monuments. There’s also a giant 300 style pit with Texas at the bottom.</p>