How the other half lives.

I’m always kind of curious about how other people live. Not only in different parts of the world, but also different regions of this country. My husband was raised in the south, when  say South I’m talking about,  Southern Living. Most of the time when he enunciates his vocabulary it is spelt, exactly the way it sounds. I grew up for the most part in the southwestern part of the United States which is Arizona going into Texas. The way that people from Texas are viewed as being Southern is not the same as people from Florida , Virginia , The  Carolinas, Tennessee the southern Appalachians, the heart of The Mississippi, and please don’t get me started on Louisiana which is a whole separate type of Southern to begin  with. Most of my education growing up was in Texas so we had a huge emphasis on how Texas became part of the United States and how it came from being its own country, as well as the fight that it took for us to become what is today. Six flags Fly over Texas and people don’t really pay attention to what those mean but all six of those flags represent what Texans are about. However to say that every state that’s in the southern half of our country, hold that same view is not correct. Being from Texas or growing up in Texas holds a completely different meaning to any other state in this country. You honestly cannot tell a Texan what their history is because they’ll tell you exactly what you got wrong. So what I’m curious about is people who live in other parts of the United States I am always wondering what makes their region so different and when I talk to people from different places you can honestly tell that they are raised and taught different values different histories of how the place that they call home actually came to become their home. I found out a long time ago that my family came here from different directions my mother’s side of the family came from across the pond UK and Spain and my dad’s family it’s kind of still up in the air but for the most part we know that they were primarily native American when I found out what the history behind my family was I starting wondering what makes my home my home yet so many other regions in this country have a lot of history behind them as well. when I speak to my husband about where he came from and where his family come from I can not even fathom what he was looking at when he was growing up

I grew up with mountains, desert and landscape that has been described in books for ages.  I don’t have memories of oceans as far as I can see being able to watch a sunset over a horizon that is mirroring the actual ocean. If any of y’all reading this are from different places in the United States or even from different places around the world tell me what it’s like where you call home I really am curious