Heel n Toe,
Now you are just making stuff up and forgetting or not noticing that a few posts got deleted. The post I was responding to got deleted. It's quoted in post #39 in this thread.
I made the assumption that the person that made that post was talking about where he lived when he said "out west". He lives in the great state of Texas so I assumed he meant that Texas was "out west" as in "the west".
Now, that assumption could have been wrong on a couple of levels. He could have meant Arizona, New Mexico, or some other state in the west. Or, he could have meant west of where he was. I think I got the assumption right, though.
Like I said, not everyone shares the same opinion on this subject. Again, this is a good read:
Southern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scott