Did anyone catch the latest episode of, "Anthony Bourdain's Part's Unknown" in East Texas?

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15. haha! I was gonna say, I've spent a lot of time in East Texas...

and, uh, that doesn't sound like the kind of people (or geography) I've met.

In my experience out that way, trying to bring people together with food, you get mixed results, since a lot of the people you run into aren't all that hungry most of the time if you know what I mean.

I often wonder about the voting trends out that way, but I suppose I can guess...not being from around here, my biggest surprise about the population was that there were a lot more black folks than I expected...shouldn't have been surprised I guess; East Texas is the only part of the state that I'd call part of "The South." Still lots of cotton fields...anyway, my point about the diversity is that I bet if everyone around there voted, the place would be as blue as Austin pretty quickly. Seems to me like there's still quite a lot of Klan activity out that way along with the cotton fields though....