Proper noun

Singular Texas

Plural -

Texas

1. A state of the United States of America. Capital: Austin.

Derived terms

• Tex
• Texan
• Texas blind snake
• Texas cattle fever
• Texas fever
• Texas hold 'em

• Texas mickey
• Texas ratio
• Texas toast
• Tex-Mex
• TX

The culture of Texas has been a melting pot of the "Southern" (Dixie) and Southwestern (Mexi-WASPy fusion) North American culture, with pockets of colonies of ethnic groups in and around metropolitan and other urban areas while the entire Rio Grande River valley, and increasingly other areas to the east and north of it, have been re-mexicized due to recent migration and high birth rates (accompanied by "white flight") among the ethnic Mexican population. All of this is due to Texas' geographic location and settler past in the United States' history. The state of Texas is a diverse ethnic-origin state predominantly due to international migration before and over its history, while at the same time very North American, and an international place to live, in part because of its many oil industries. Texas also has an influx of people from the central United States moving in to find oil. Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota have experienced a "brain drain" as their university graduates move to Texas to find employment.