Houston is in Texas. Texas is not part of the South. Texas is simply Texas. You guys got your own whole thing going on there and you should be proud of it.
But it is amazing about people's reactions to my accent from Alabama with these people in Vegas. If I get that reaction from someone I automatically assume they are bigots with a superiority complex. And I'm not too shy to let them know I think that as well. ;-)
Oh, really?! That must be why Robert E. Lee stood in his stirrups at Spottsylvania Court House and called out, when he saw Hood's Texans going by, "The Texans always move them!"
Must be why Sam Houston and David Crockett were from Tennessee, and William Barrett Travis was from South Carolina.
It also explains the presence of the New Orleans Greys at the Alamo, and why many score of thousands of Texans wore butternut and gray in dozens of battles all over the South, and why the last battle of the Civil War, a Confederate victory, was fought in Texas at the mouth of the Rio Grande.
That must be it.