The other answers are good, but calling Texas part of "the West" can be justified even now on the basis of population density. The median north-south population

The other answers are good, but calling Texas part of "the West" can be justified even now on the basis of population density. The median north-south population line has not reached the Mississippi even as of 2020 - it's in southwestern Indiana. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_center_of_the_United_States_population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_center_of_the_United_...