All, I have enjoyed all the comments about where East Texas lies. Having grown up in deep eastern Texas, and living later in far western Texas, I always noticed that somewhere in between these two entities there exists an imaginary line of demarcation where a pickup truck on one side of the line may be labeled "East Texas Electrical Contractor" and on the other side, "West Texas Electrical Contractor." Odd, but I cannot ever remember seeing a Central Texas contractor sign. Culturally, the two sides of the State used to be very diverse. In the past, whenever a family in deep east Texas planned a vacation, they would plan something east of them. e.g., Disney World, New Orleans, etc. Whenever a West Texas family went somewhere, it was usually to the Rockies, California, Grand Canyon, etc. Many of the families that came into eastern Texas came very early and from the southeast, Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, ect. Many of the west Texas families, like my wife's German families, came later from areas in the north and midwest. Now, of course, the two sides have greatly intermixed (e.g., east Texas cotton farming families moving to the Texas High Plains when the boll weevil arrived from Mexico in the 1930s, and like me, an east Texan marrying into a West Texas family). I think to draw a real line of demarcation between east Texas and West Texas anymore would not be an easy geographic task, but still a lot of fun academically. Ron McClendon