• Lili_Thana@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Texas does have desert. About 10% of the state is desert, specifically the Chihuahan desert, the largest one in North America. I’m a 6th generation native of the Hill Country, and its very far from desert as you said. Primarily oak and juniper woodlands and grasslands. Surprised you picked the Hill Country as “the closest to a desert” when the Llano Estacado and Permian basin are much more arid and devoid of trees and other vegetation.

    I agree with everything else you said. Texas has bad PR, and a hostile gov that hates everyone here, especially their own base.

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      2 days ago

      I thought none if what Texas has was classified as arid dessert, mb. i chose hill country because I’ve never really spent much time in west Texas and it was the closest to a desert that I was familiar with, and I didn’t express that correctly.

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      3 days ago

      Deep East Texas native living in Houston checking in. My cousin lives out in Odessa, TX. If that place ain’t a desert I don’t know what is.