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Culture Capitals: San Marcos voted the cultural heart of Texas

If your state had to be summed up by just one town - its accent, its quirks, its food, its humor, the very way it moves where would you point? Not the capital. Not the biggest city. But the place that locals say feels like us. That’s exactly what Mondly, a language learning platform, set out to uncover in a survey of 3,012 respondents. They asked, “Which town in your state best represents your cultural identity?”

The results spotlighted what we might call each state’s “spirit town” - the place that speaks your language, cooks your comfort food and lives by the rhythms that shaped you.

Texans’ top 3 choices were:

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