30. I'm not Southern, but am Texan. People sometimes confuse that concept.
Yeah, they do, the South starts at the AR/LA western border. Texas is in the Southwest but they are considered in the South by many people but not the deep south.
Texans also don't speak Southern, they drop their g's but they add the drawl. They also put corn and jalapenos in cornbread which would have some Southerners wanting to start a new war between the South and Texas.
Some people do not realize the origin of black-eyed peas as good luck on New Year's Day and while it began in the South, it arrived there and did not originate there. It is also a fallacy because plenty of people ate black-eyed peas on 1/1/20 and the year sucked.
According to a portion of
the Talmud written around 500 A.D., it was Jewish custom at the time to eat black-eyed peas in celebration of
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (which occurs in the fall). It is possible that the tradition arrived in America with
Sephardic Jews, who first arrived in Georgia in the 1730s.