South Texas
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[[Image:South Texas Counties.PNG|thumb|250px|Counties in South Texas]]
[[Image:Downtown San Antonio.jpg|thumb|250px|[[San Antonio]] is the largest city in South Texas.]]
[[Image:CorpusChristiTX Night.jpg|thumb|250px|right| [[Corpus Christi, Texas|Corpus Christi]] is the second largest city in South Texas.]]
[[Image:Padre Island National Seashore - sand dunes3.jpg|thumb|250px|right| [[Padre Island]] is a popular beach destination.]]
[[Image:San Agustin Cathedral.JPG|thumb|250px|The [[San Agustin Cathedral]] in Laredo was built during the [[Spanish Texas]] period.]]
'''South Texas''' is a region of the [[United States of America|U.S.]] state of [[Texas]] which lies roughly south of, or beginning at, [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]]. The southern portion of this region is often refered to as 'Deep South Texas'. The [[Rio Grande Valley]] is part of this region.
==Biggest Cities==
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| '''City'''
| ''' [[2000 US Census|2000 Census]] Population'''<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en Census Fact Finder]</ref>
| '''County'''
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]]
| 1,144,646
| [[Bexar County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Corpus Christi, Texas|Corpus Christi]]
| 277,454
| [[Nueces County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Laredo, Texas|Laredo]]
| 176,576
| [[Webb County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Brownsville, Texas|Brownsville]]
| 139,722
| [[Cameron County, Texas|Cameron County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[McAllen, Texas|McAllen]]
| 106,414
| [[Hidalgo County, Texas|Hidalgo County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Victoria, Texas|Victoria]]
| 60,603
| [[Victoria County, Texas|Victoria County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Harlingen, Texas|Harlingen]]
| 57,564
| [[Cameron County, Texas|Cameron County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Edinburg, Texas|Edinburg]]
| 48,465
| [[Hidalgo County, Texas|Hidalgo County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Pharr, Texas|Pharr]]
| 46,660
| [[Hidalgo County, Texas|Hidalgo County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Mission, Texas|Mission]]
| 45,408
| [[Hidalgo County, Texas|Hidalgo County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Weslaco, Texas|Weslaco]]
| 26,935
| [[Hidalgo County, Texas|Hidalgo County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[San Juan, Texas|San Juan]]
| 26,229
| [[Hidalgo County, Texas|Hidalgo County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Kingsville, Texas|Kingsville]]
| 25,575
| [[Kleberg County, Texas|Kleberg County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[San Benito, Texas|San Benito]]
| 23,444
| [[Cameron County, Texas|Cameron County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Eagle Pass, Texas|Eagle Pass]]
| 22,413
| [[Maverick County, Texas|Maverick County]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Alice, Texas|Alice]]
| 19,010
| [[Jim Wells County, Texas|Jim Wells County]]
|}
==Multicultural influences==
South Texas is well-known for a strong [[Hispanic]], primarily [[Mexican American]] and ''[[Tejano]]'' (the Spanish term for ''[[Texan]]'') influence due to its proximity with [[Mexico]]. However, a large percentage of Tejanos and Mexicans living in South Texas have families' residency go back many generations (about 300 years in some cases) before the U.S. annexation of their lands after the [[Mexican American War]] in the 1840s, but the disputed area between the [[Nueces River]] south of San Antonio and Corpus Christi, and the Rio Grande was a republic of their own not recognized by Mexico and the U.S., known as the [[Republic of the Rio Grande]] from 1838 to 1847 and their capital was in Laredo, Texas.
Some good books to read about the [[Native Americans in the United States|native]] and non-native [[Latino]] population are ''[[Brownsville]]'' by [[Oscar Casares]], ''[[Rio Grande Wetbacks]]'' by [[Carol Norquest]], ''[[Y no se lo tragó la tierra|...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him]]'' by [[Tomás Rivera]], as well as other popular books, ''[[Border Towns]]'' and ''[[Poncho (book)|Poncho]]''.
One might look at the writings of [[J. Frank Dobie]], who was born and raised in South Texas, to begin to understand the [[Anglo]] viewpoint of the current society of the area.
==See also==
* [[List of geographical regions in Texas]]
*[[List of regions of the United States#Texas|List of Texas regions]]
==Gallery==
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Image:SanAntonio-RiverWalk-5160.jpg|[[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]] [[San Antonio River Walk|river walk]]
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