The culture of Texas has been a melting pot of the "Southern" (Dixie) and Southwestern culture, with pockets of colonies of ethnic groups in some locations.

Texas also has an influx of people from North America moving in to find oil. Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota have experienced a "brain drain" as their university graduates move to Texas to find jobs.

There are many popular events held in Texas celebrating cultures of Texans. The annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the world's largest known rodeo. It is held over 20 days from late February through early March. The event begins with trail rides that originate from several points throughout the state, all of which convene at Reliant Park for a barbecue cook-off. The rodeo includes typical rodeo events, as well as concert performances from major artists and carnival rides. The Fort Worth Livestock Show and Rodeo lasts three weeks in late January and early February. It has many traditional rodeos, but also a cowboy rodeo, and a Mexican rodeo in recent years that both have large fan bases.

Texas (ⁱ/ˈtɛksəs/) (Alibamu: Teksi ) is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 United States, and the most extensive state of the 48 contiguous United States. The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km²), and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.

During the Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas: La Provincia de Texas. Antonio Margil de Jesús was known to be the first person to use the name in a letter to the Viceroy of Mexico in July 20, 1716. The name was not popularly used in daily speech but often appeared in legal documents until the end of the 1800s.

The term "Horse culture" is used to define a tribal group or community whose day to day life revolves around the herding and breeding of horses. Notable examples are the Mongols of Mongolia, and the American Indians of the Great Plains, after horses were imported from Eurasia, particularly from Spain, during the 16th century.

History offers many examples of horse cultures, such as the Huns and other peoples in Europe and Asia. Horse cultures tend to place a great deal of importance on horses and by their very nature are nomadic and usually hunter-gatherer or nomadic pastoralist societies.

As the natives progressed throughout the plains, so did their culture. The natives stumbled onto something that would revolutionize their entire world, the horse. As the horse was integrated into the lives of the natives it also transformed the vision of the plains for them. For the natives, the horse was a very valuable resource. They used horses for transportation as well as for breeding and trading purposes. The use of horses revolutionized hunting for the natives and was used successfully and efficiently in warfare. The main advantage to this revolved around increased mobility: the ability of the horse to cover a lot of ground in a very short period of time. In a sense the horse offered the natives liberation and allowed them to easily move place to place, bringing on a nomadic shift in their culture. However, there were also disadvantages to adopting horse culture. These included the risk of horse theft as well as the responsibility to care for the horses and keep them healthy. Adoption of this culture also required the natives to live in smaller groups, as opposed to the larger groups which had existed for hundreds of years. This allowed room for horses to graze and feed easily.

Weatherford is a city in Parker County, Texas, United States, and a western suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 25,250 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Parker County and is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

Weatherford is located 25 miles (40 km) west of Fort Worth on Interstate 20. It is the county seat for Parker County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.7 square miles (59 km²), of which, 20.9 square miles (54 km²) of it is land and 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²) of it (7.86%) is water.

The 2008 census for the population of the City of Weatherford, Texas is 26,686 with a population density of 1,175.59 people per square mile. The population grew by 40.5% from 2000 to 2008. The racial makeup of the city in 2008 is 85.50% White, 10.20% Hispanic, 2.10% Black, 1.30% American Indian, 0.70% Asian, 4.10% other. Weatherford's average household size is 2.5.

The average income per household was $50,924, in the year 2007. The estimated 2007 city capita was $26,380.