FWIW: Brady in northern McCulloch County calls itself the official “Heart of Texas”

There is a monument marking the geographic center of Texas between Brady and Brownwood.

That’s in Eden I believe. I was researching a lease there many years ago and That’s what’s Eden is known for.

About 20 miles NE of Brady I believe on 377. Eden is on 87.

About 20 miles NE of Brady I believe on 377. Eden is on 87.

Texas is a country unto itself.

East Texas shares an ecosystem with Louisiana, which is part of "The South".



The same holds true with the western border, sharing an ecosystem with New Mexico, which is part of the "South West".

The Rockies extend into the Trans Pecos Region. Which are part of Colorado, which is part of "The West". Eastern Colorado has the high plains, the same as Texas does.

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I agree with this. What makes it more evident to me is if you travel to those different regions in Texas, you can tell by the way they talk, the food they are known for and the overall culture, generally speaking. It's very distinct in every region and I appreciate the beauty, culture and the people that each region has. Of course, everyone is partial to certain areas but that's what makes Texas so great. We could argue for days about what region is best but at the end of the day if I am in some far away place and there is a native Texan in the room, I already have a bond with someone. No other state has that kind of connection between its people that I have seen, and I have traveled this country quite a bit.

Can we agree that Houston is the arm pit of Texas?

Well there is the continental divide over to the west in New Mexico so how can it be southwest? It is South…

If by Houston you mean the Ship Channel/Pasedena area, then yes, definitely

Depends on your point of view. From an economical standpoint, the ship channel is responsible for billions upon billions of $$$$ in revenue every year. The business down there is astounding.

My nomination for armpit of TX is Pecos. Tell you wife you're moving there and see what happens.

There is a reason it is called the Lone Star State

Tensions were high when the Civil War began, and Texans responded in impressive numbers. By the end of 1861, more than 25,000 had joined the Confederate army. During the course of the war, nearly 90,000 Texans served in the military. The National Park Service estimates that by war's end more than 20,000 Hispanics fought in the Civil War nationwide: some for the Union and some for the Confederacy. Thousands more civilians lent hearts and hands on the home front. They distinguished themselves in every major campaign of the war from New Mexico to Pennsylvania. Texas forces figured prominently at celebrated battle sites such as Gettysburg, Antietam, Second Manassas, Wilson's Creek, The Wilderness, Vicksburg, Corinth, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Glorieta Pass, Pea Ridge, Gaine's Mill, Franklin, and Mansfield. Leaders of the Texas forces included legendary figures John Bell Hood, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Bankhead Magruder, Patrick Cleburne, and Ben McCulloch.

In Texas, Confederate and state forces repulsed Union invaders at Brownsville, Sabine Pass, Galveston, Corpus Christi, and Laredo, and sustained naval bombardments in several coastal areas. They fought frontier and border raiders, evaded federal blockades, protected internal trade routes and operated prisoner of war camps.

The Civil War came to an end in Texas. Soldiers fought the last land battle at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville more than a month after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy at Galveston on June 2, 1865 was, as Capt. Benjamin Franklin Sands of the United States Navy noted, “the closing act of the Great Rebellion.” Just a few weeks later on June 19, Gen. Gordon Granger, commander of U.S. troops in Texas, arrived in Galveston and ended slavery in Texas by issuing an order that the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect in Texas later to become known as Juneteenth.

Texas is just.TEXAS! The south ends at Louisiana and the southwest starts at New Mexico….Texas is what separates the two!

Been that way since before we were even a Republic…

Texas is just.TEXAS! The south ends at Louisiana and the southwest starts at New Mexico….Texas is what separates the two!

Been that way since before we were even a Republic…

Interesting, that was probably 12-13 years ago when I saw the Eden claim. They weren’t even close!

They probably made this claim by finding the points further north, south, east and west, and then finding the center of those. This puts you a few miles west of Eden. If you did this with Florida you would be in the Gulf. Geographic center is a different place.