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When I was in Scotland 8 years back. My Boy Scout contingent and me introduced ourselves as Texans. Right off the bat, the Scots start in on asking about the TV show Dallas. Asking if we really had horses and were was our cowboy boots and hat. We had to gently explain to them that by the time we were old enough to stop watching cartoons, Dallas had already been off the air for a several years. So we knew nothing about it. But every foreign contingent at the Jamborette knew about Texas, including the Japs next to us.

I think a previous poster had it right. Most of us DFWers have lost the accent due to influx of Yankees and Calis migrating here, plus the accent being culled out by the Socialist School System. But I still use a lot of the Texan words like "fixin to" and "I reckon". I don't realize it until I go to post here or on other forums and have to sit there and think of what the proper English word is. hehehe.

I miss Phil being in the Senate as well. He was a Servant of the Citizens first and Politician second.