Mark, the SW is defined by the definer.  Your chosen geographer has one definition.  Others have a different one.  But you go your way, others will go theirs.  mcneely

---- "Mark L. Hineline" <hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote:
> You mean like D. W. Meinig, geographer and author of the four-volume
> The Shaping of America (Yale University Press) and The Southwest? As
> well as the National Geographic Historical Geography maps? Including
> the one for the Southwest?
>
> The Southwest is defined by the presence of three cultures: Native
> American, Spanish/Hispanic, and Anglo. Native American is mostly
> missing from the Trans Pecos region.
>
> But Texans like to tell it a different way.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 3:14 PM, mcneely4@COX.NET wrote:
>
> > But anyone who doesn't include the Trans Pecos region of Texas as
> > part of the SW has little or no experience in the SW.
>

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David McNeely