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Heh, I used to think Texas WAS the real south. I found out I was wrong when I visited SC and ordered sweet iced tea.

Furthermore, barbeque in "the South" tends to be pork, where we usually get beef in Texas. At least they don't get confused, like my Massachusetts relatives, who seem to think that anything you put on a grill is, by definition, barbeque. Still, if you define "the South" as having being a member of the Confederacy, then Texas is most certainly the South, and they've got a huge granite monument at the state capital to commemorate it (and, last time I was there, a random guy in a Confederate uniform with the stars and bars standing in front of it).

Georgia has some other distinctive cuisine you won't necessarily find elsewhere. Last time I was in Atlanta, I ate at a restaurant that served us Hoppin' John, which wasn't half bad, but not something I'd go out of my way to get, either...