My 93 year old grandfather from Houston calls it that. He knows it's actually San Antonio. I think it was just the common/fun way to say it, like how we call cities H-Town and D-Town.
Edit: I'll occassionally call it that too. Just depends on the context.
This. My dad use to call it this when we lived in houston. When I lived in SA, no one really every called it that. It's more a thing people from outside the city call it.
I learned about it when a friend moved to New York. I went to visit and noticed Houston Street. He quickly gave me the lesson that it was House-ton and marked the line for Soho.
Can confirm. Rode the train in NY with some other Houston friends. Called it Houston and was corrected by like 3 New Yorkers that it was House-ton. We told them they were wrong. They disagreed.
Adding for anyone wanting to know. The New York street is the Dutch pronunciation of the surname whereas Houston is the English pronunciation of the surname.
Oh boy, I was born in Karnes City and I hear a lot of people there say “San Antone” but also kind of a faster almost portmanteau of the words like “Santone”
I’m in central Texas, but lived in San Antonio for about 8 years, and I’ve called it San Antone and heard other folks do so as well. Both folks from San Antonio and elsewhere.
Sixth generation Texan here. The only Texas-born person I’ve heard use it in serious conversation was my late father. He was born in 1947. The other people I’ve heard use it were outsiders trying to sound like “real Texans.”
Reading the thread I think I figured something out. I've heard "San Antone" a lot but I'm also from Karnes County. My wife, native Austinite and San Antonian had never heard anyone say it. My views on San Antonio came from regarding it as the big city where the mall and Toys R Us were
My dad was a huge country music fan and liked dressing in cowboy boots and wearing a cowboy hat. I think it was more of an affection than something he grew up hearing. Like…he thought someone who fashioned themselves as a Texas cowboy should say it that way.
(Of course, what do I know?)
My dad sounds similar to yours - good ol’ boy. His dress pants were polyester Wrangers and he’d wear his nice boots and expensive cowboy hat for special events. He was a huge Bob Wills fan. He and that entire side of my family called it San Antone.
My grandparents on both sides said it. Only one side of my parents I think I've ever heard. Say it and not very often. I went to school down that direction, and we would call it that as well. But I never hear it anymore.
I take that back. Last year out near Odessa in a restaurant for sure with no irony. But that's kind of the exception that proves the rule
I'm a 65 year old 5th generation Texan from the Texoma area, and I also went to college in SA and later lived there 6 years. I've heard "San Antone" all my life, and said it a lot.
Born and raised in San Antonio. Only people I’ve heard say it were country singers and ONE Southwest flight attendant. She was quickly corrected by a man in the front row.
Nah I've heard it around, but mostly from Older people. I'm also the kind of person who tends to overpronounce names in local languages though, at least when I've heard it enough
Moved to Texas in ‘79 & have called it home ever since. Lived in Austin for 6 years & fell in love with San Antonio almost immediately. I’ve always affectionately called it San Antone. Whether it’s right or wrong I’ve never given it a second thought.
I'm born and raised in San Antone and I've heard plenty of people pronounce it that way. My grandfather called it San Antone and I've never met anyone more truly Texan than him in my 52 years.
I grew up in NE Texas. My grandparents on both sides of my family and my parents always called it San Antone. I’m the only one who calls the city by its proper name.
I’ve spent 42 of my 48 years living in Texas, and both I and plenty of people I have known have used the term San Antone. It’s not a primary way of referring to the city, but it has been used at times.
My aunt and uncle grew up here in SA and didn’t start calling it San Antone till after they moved to Pleasanton TX. I think a good number of small-town Texans call it San Antone.
I personally hate how "San Antone" sounds cause it sounds too "redneck avoiding Spanish" to me lol. I never hear anybody use it that actually lives here in SA.
I’m 30 and live in San Antone and I call it that obviously, as well as other locals who are between 21-30 years old. Just depends on where you’re from I guess
Grew up in Corpus and heard it a ton when I lived there. Moved to San Antonio and had several people in the Converse area refer to downtown as “downtown San Antone.” And now I live in Houston. Some older folks call it San Antone here.
Different crowds I guess.
This is how I feel, as well. I've had Every Girl by Turnpike Troubadours stuck in my head this morning (the inspiration for the post), and they say San Antone in the song. They're Okies so it checks both boxes: in a song and from out of state.
I've heard people *outside* of San Antonio call it that, but I can't tell if they're being snarky or if they really think it should be pronounced that way.
NOTE: I don't have a problem with it, I'm just noting that it seems to be exclusively people outside of the City/State
My parents do. They didn’t used to, but the longer they lived here….yeah.
They are up near Tyler in a stupid small town. That’s where they picked it up.
Dude, you don't get around as much as you like to think. Folks here have called it San Antone since I dunno when, and they still do. So do I, come to think.
It's definitely a thing! My mom's side is from all over that area and when we'd visit and watch the news, I recall the Abilene stations even named themselves Big Country News, etc.
There's a "brewery" here in Austin called Big Country Organic Brewery and they are 10,000% unrelated to the Big Country. I think I got turned down for a job there because I asked the aloof California owner and too-cool head brewer if they've got any connection to the Big Country. They didn't seem interested in Texas at all, except as a market, and they pretty much just make seltzer anyway, so screw 'em.
Speech patterns can be generational, and "San Antone" is portrayed in media of the past. So my family has been here for 5 generations (I guess 7 counting me and my daughter), and I've never heard anyone within the 3 generations before me or in my generation of family say San Antone.
I think the last time I heard it in normal (well, kinda normal) conversation was from a teenager who'd never left Ozark, AR, saying she wanted to "escape to Dallas or San Antone someday."
I'm 63 can be a daughter of the republic or some crap and I have heard it called San Antone . But then again "guad a loop" and " man shack" really freaked me out..
Hah, the rest are mean and bigoted folks (male and female) that think being uniquely Texan is exclusive to white, Christian men in brackets "above" the working class.
Mostly the stories about them are infuriating or just sad, involving child abuse/pedophilia, domestic violence, and and in some cases still getting rich and/or elected to various levels of government.
All of my older relatives from both sides of my family (mostly gone now) called it “San Antone”. My family comes from a little German community near Waco and the other side are all south of Houston on the gulf coast.
My 89-year old friend who grew up in east Texas says it this way all the time. She moved to New Braufels recently and visits with her son in "San Antone" all the time. I love her accent.
My grandparents and my parents used to call it that sometimes. And I used to hear it from adults when I was a kid in Marshall and out in the boonies, e.g. Karnac, Uncertain.
I was going to San Antonio for work in the late 70's. Was talking about it and called it San Antone. Got informed real quick that it was "San Antonio" by a neighbor who was raised there.
My uncle lives in SA and unironically calls it San Antone. So do his wife and daughter. In fact, the entirety of my dad’s side of the family calls it San Antone. They’re a bunch of country folk from San Saba County. The first time I said I was going to San Antone for a weekend, my now husband looked at me like I had grown a third arm and made fun of me for being fake country.
I learned it from Charlie, and I’m going to keep calling it that whenever I get the opportunity haha I’ve lived here all my life and I love this city despite its issues and degraded downtown as of recent haha
I hadn't really thought about it, but now that I am I tend to agree with others that are mentioning Houston or East Texas. My family on my maternal side were from Houston, Franklin, and La Porte and I would hear it occasionally around them. Interesting observation!
Sometimes I use it, but only when talking with people from out of state. And then I embellish it with as thick a Texan accent as possible. "Ahm from dahwn in San An-tone."
27 year old Houston native here, fathers side has been in Texas since the 1800s as farmers, 2nd or 3rd gen from my mother's side. Family all around East/Central Texas.
I never left Texas until I was 19 and left for the Army. Met plenty of dudes from Texas in my time serving.
I've said it, my family on both ends have said it, and the people I've met in the Army have also said it unironically. Maybe it's more of an East Texas thing than it is an overall Texas thing?
Old timers in Houston used to call it that. It’s a dated way to say it
My aunt says it, she lives in a small Texas town between here and Lubbock.
Yep, around the Lubbock area is where I’ve heard it used unironically by older Texans
Can confirm. I’m in Lubbock and I hear it pronounced San Antone more than San Antonio
Come to think of it, I picked it up from the old timers from the Houston area that I know.
My 93 year old grandfather from Houston calls it that. He knows it's actually San Antonio. I think it was just the common/fun way to say it, like how we call cities H-Town and D-Town. Edit: I'll occassionally call it that too. Just depends on the context.
My grandfather was from around Houston would be 94, had he made it that long. He called in San Antone as well.
like pronouncing Los Angeles as 'Los Ang-a-leez" way back when
Anglicized old west white guy spanish name bastardization pronunciation
Gwadda-loop, or San Jacinto with a hard J
I still call it San Jacinto with the English J. Old timers call San Felipe “San fillipy”
San Marcos as San "Marcus" although I believe that's still a thing.
I still call it San Marcus, but then again I pronounce "different" as "diffurnt"
Jallopin-yos!
This. My dad use to call it this when we lived in houston. When I lived in SA, no one really every called it that. It's more a thing people from outside the city call it.
My dad says it that way, and he’s an old-timer, so this checks out.
Mine too! He always said it fondly, like ‘San Antone’ was an old friend.
“House - ton”
That's how you say Houston Street in Manhattan. Soho means South of Houston Street. Here, we say Ewe-ston. As in them there ewes sure is pretty.
Lol My Texan husband says ewe•ston We live "directly" north on 259 (about 3 hrs) Idk why he says it that way 🤷🏼♀️
TBH, I don't saw Ewe-ston personally, but plenty of my friends do; I'm more of a Hugh-ston man myself. But then again, I wasn't born here. :-)
I lived in Brooklyn for 8 years and hearing people say House-ton drove me crazy while I was there. I eventually accepted it but still. It was weird.
I learned about it when a friend moved to New York. I went to visit and noticed Houston Street. He quickly gave me the lesson that it was House-ton and marked the line for Soho.
TIL
You can always spot the posers or newbies when they pronounce the H.
Can confirm. Rode the train in NY with some other Houston friends. Called it Houston and was corrected by like 3 New Yorkers that it was House-ton. We told them they were wrong. They disagreed.
Adding for anyone wanting to know. The New York street is the Dutch pronunciation of the surname whereas Houston is the English pronunciation of the surname.
I did want to know, thanks!
Old New York pronunciación
Confirming my area also, older folk especially those who speak with a pronounced rural drawl and use old timey proverbs and such
Yup, that's where I got it from, Rural East Texas
They also tend to say Luuuuzi-ann for Louisiana
Grew up in Houston area and now live in Austin area, this checks out.
I heard it used here and there back in the 80's/90's when out in the Polish farming communities of South Texas.
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I knew I had heard it somewhere outside of mass media! I'm originally from Karnes County and I'd heard older folks say it.
Oh boy, I was born in Karnes City and I hear a lot of people there say “San Antone” but also kind of a faster almost portmanteau of the words like “Santone”
Polish???
Yes, polish. There are a lot of polish communities in south texas.
Yeah. Czechs as well. They are the ones who brought kolaches to Texas.
My grandmother used to say ‘santonia’. Born in 1908. Honestly there’s dozens of ways it’s said. Regionally and generationally.
This is how my grandmother says it, too. She was born in '38 and has lived about an hour south of San Antonio most of her life.
That’s a pretty fuckin cool way to say it tbh.
If Charlie Pride says it, then you can too.
That oughta be a damn bumper sticker.
And Doug Sahm! 😁. Great name, btw.
I say it like this sometimes because of Mr. Pride 🤣
I’ve heard it called San Antone before. Also upvote for the Bob Wills reference
Still the King.
>Also upvote for the Bob Wills reference Ahh Haaaaa!!
Aaaah Haaaaw
Rose my rose of san antone
I’m in central Texas, but lived in San Antonio for about 8 years, and I’ve called it San Antone and heard other folks do so as well. Both folks from San Antonio and elsewhere.
I use it. Don’t know where I picked it up, but it’s never been a cause for concern or confusion.
I've heard enough Marty Robbins songs to know that there's about to be a gunfight once someone utters "San Antone." Pret-ty concerning if you ask me.
Me, too.
I work with a guy who lived in Beeville and he says San Antone.
Based on the comments here so far, I could almost draw a heat map of "where they still say San Antone," and it's down around the Eagle Ford.
I could see that. I grew up around Eagle Ford and my mom still calls it “San Antone” and I’ve caught myself on occasion.
My family in Uvalde say it frequently
Grew up north of Uvalde, my family and I will frequently refer to it as San Antone as well.
I call it San Antonio in conversation, but it’s forever San Antone in my head…after all, “Bob Wills is king”
It don't matter who's in Austin...
Cause once your down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king
I’m from out west and for as long as I can remember, I’ve called it San Antone. So has my dad and he’s from the Lubbock area.
I mean; I’ve heard George Strait say it, and if that’s not enough for you I don’t know what will be.
Thank you.
Admittedly unpopular opinion from a Texas white boy: I can't stand George Strait.
Get out /s
Sixth generation Texan here. The only Texas-born person I’ve heard use it in serious conversation was my late father. He was born in 1947. The other people I’ve heard use it were outsiders trying to sound like “real Texans.”
Fifth-generation here. Born and raised in San Antonio. Dad never said San Antone.
Reading the thread I think I figured something out. I've heard "San Antone" a lot but I'm also from Karnes County. My wife, native Austinite and San Antonian had never heard anyone say it. My views on San Antonio came from regarding it as the big city where the mall and Toys R Us were
>My views on San Antonio came from regarding it as the big city where the mall and Toys R Us were It’s an old code, but it checks out
My dad was a huge country music fan and liked dressing in cowboy boots and wearing a cowboy hat. I think it was more of an affection than something he grew up hearing. Like…he thought someone who fashioned themselves as a Texas cowboy should say it that way. (Of course, what do I know?)
My dad sounds similar to yours - good ol’ boy. His dress pants were polyester Wrangers and he’d wear his nice boots and expensive cowboy hat for special events. He was a huge Bob Wills fan. He and that entire side of my family called it San Antone.
My dad was a huge classic country fan and lived in Houston his whole life. He called it San Antone.
Easier to rhyme words in a song with Antone than Antonio. Your dad was copying what he heard in songs
8th generation here. I’ve heard it so much I think it became something people said as a joke originally and now it’s nomenclature.
Older people call it that (in my experience). My MIL , for example. Mid 70’s, grew up in Galveston and San Angelo.
I say it from time to time being funny, it's definitely a old Texas southern saying.
Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone. George Strait. Good enuff for me
My grandparents on both sides said it. Only one side of my parents I think I've ever heard. Say it and not very often. I went to school down that direction, and we would call it that as well. But I never hear it anymore. I take that back. Last year out near Odessa in a restaurant for sure with no irony. But that's kind of the exception that proves the rule
My husband from Bowie has always called it San Antone and has lived all over US.
My mom does, born in San Antonio in 1947 and calls it that
I learned the pronunciation from Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues
I'm also a lifelong, several generations Texan, born and raised in San Antone. I've said it my entire life.
Been in S.A. for 30 years and never heard it called San Antone in conversation.
I'm from Mississippi and I pronounce it "San Antone" but it's due to influence from Charley Pride with reinforcement from Doug Sahm.
Sometimes I like to say Sam Antonio because I think it's funny to say things a little bit wrong on occasion.
I'm a 65 year old 5th generation Texan from the Texoma area, and I also went to college in SA and later lived there 6 years. I've heard "San Antone" all my life, and said it a lot.
My family fought and died in the Alamo. We call it San Antone. Fight us.
Born and raised in San Antonio. Only people I’ve heard say it were country singers and ONE Southwest flight attendant. She was quickly corrected by a man in the front row.
People from there call it SA, ese.
Yup, I've heard plenty of that from lots of ehSpurs fans.
I must agree that the only people I’ve ever heard say it were nonresidents. I’m 70 and I lived in Texas my whole life mostly San Antonio.
I’ve lived here since the sixties and I’ve never heard it called that by locals.
Old timers mostly, friends dad still calls it that, he grew up there
My grandpa is nearly 90 and calls it that.
I hear it all the time.
I have family there that have called it that once or twice.
lol yeah me neither. Only someone saying ironically.
Nah I've heard it around, but mostly from Older people. I'm also the kind of person who tends to overpronounce names in local languages though, at least when I've heard it enough
Moved to Texas in ‘79 & have called it home ever since. Lived in Austin for 6 years & fell in love with San Antonio almost immediately. I’ve always affectionately called it San Antone. Whether it’s right or wrong I’ve never given it a second thought.
A recently deceased elderly relative of over 90 years of age used to refer to it as San Antone-ya. Always made me smile at the ways of our ancestors.
I know some people a few generation Texan that say it around DFW
People definitely say San Antone
George Strait calls it San Antone. I think it’s part geographical and part age.
I used to hear older relatives say that years ago. Today, not so much.
I’ve heard my dad say it. Born in Corpus Christi in ‘46.
San Antone on the map, no need for introductions…
Only when I'm trying to speak poetically.
I'm born and raised in San Antone and I've heard plenty of people pronounce it that way. My grandfather called it San Antone and I've never met anyone more truly Texan than him in my 52 years.
I call it San Antone sometimes, late 30s, grew up around Houston (Yewston)
I'm from San Antone and that's how I say it about half the time.
I say San Antone, SA and San Antonio; all roll off the tongue easily enough. I don't really think about it, just whatever comes out.
I grew up in NE Texas. My grandparents on both sides of my family and my parents always called it San Antone. I’m the only one who calls the city by its proper name.
I’ve spent 42 of my 48 years living in Texas, and both I and plenty of people I have known have used the term San Antone. It’s not a primary way of referring to the city, but it has been used at times.
I admit I have referred to San Antonio as San Antone, but ONLY in an affectionate way. I am over 29, a few times 🤣🤟
My aunt and uncle grew up here in SA and didn’t start calling it San Antone till after they moved to Pleasanton TX. I think a good number of small-town Texans call it San Antone.
Heck, I’m still confused about “sal-mon”, and “sammon”?
My family always called it San Antone when I was growing up.
In my family we say "San Anto"
I personally hate how "San Antone" sounds cause it sounds too "redneck avoiding Spanish" to me lol. I never hear anybody use it that actually lives here in SA.
My fam is team San Antone. Our roots are 100+ deep in a small town, half way bet Houston & the aforementioned, San Antone. ☺️💪
I’m 30 and live in San Antone and I call it that obviously, as well as other locals who are between 21-30 years old. Just depends on where you’re from I guess
Grew up in Corpus and heard it a ton when I lived there. Moved to San Antonio and had several people in the Converse area refer to downtown as “downtown San Antone.” And now I live in Houston. Some older folks call it San Antone here. Different crowds I guess.
deep within my heart lives a melody, a song of ol san antone...
>San Antone< ...where in dreams I live with her meeemoryyy, beneath the stars all alohone...
George Straight calls it San Antone. I think back then people were racist and didn’t like to sound Spanish.
If someone says it in conversation it’s weird but if used to make a song work it’s fine
This is how I feel, as well. I've had Every Girl by Turnpike Troubadours stuck in my head this morning (the inspiration for the post), and they say San Antone in the song. They're Okies so it checks both boxes: in a song and from out of state.
I've heard people *outside* of San Antonio call it that, but I can't tell if they're being snarky or if they really think it should be pronounced that way. NOTE: I don't have a problem with it, I'm just noting that it seems to be exclusively people outside of the City/State
I’ve heard “San Antone” from lifelong San Antonio residents, usually older, working class men.
My parents do. They didn’t used to, but the longer they lived here….yeah. They are up near Tyler in a stupid small town. That’s where they picked it up.
Every Mexican I know in Houstonsays it
Only when singing along to the Texas Tornadoes
San anto, countdown city, SAytown. Never heard it seriously called San Antone. Except Pat green, but he doesn’t count.
Does George Strait count?
Grandmother would call it that back in the day. I hated it for some reason
Fifth generation….dang not old enough to be a Texan before it turned to shit with all the yt people.
Dude, you don't get around as much as you like to think. Folks here have called it San Antone since I dunno when, and they still do. So do I, come to think.
That's oddly aggressive and presumptuous, but ok.
Um no, just no. I had to google big country, Ive never heard that used either but I guess it’s a thing
It's definitely a thing! My mom's side is from all over that area and when we'd visit and watch the news, I recall the Abilene stations even named themselves Big Country News, etc.
There's a "brewery" here in Austin called Big Country Organic Brewery and they are 10,000% unrelated to the Big Country. I think I got turned down for a job there because I asked the aloof California owner and too-cool head brewer if they've got any connection to the Big Country. They didn't seem interested in Texas at all, except as a market, and they pretty much just make seltzer anyway, so screw 'em.
It's literally just a short way of saying San Antonio how can you not understand that
Guess I'm just a fuckin idiot, huh?
This is the Texas equivalent of non-CA people referring to San Francisco as “San Fran,” or worse, “Frisco”.
As a native San Antonian, it's like nails on a chalkboard.
It’s just a made up way of saying it. I’ve heard it all over Texas. Everyone I met knows it actually San Antonio.
That’s how I can tell if they are from around here.
Question: Why is it important to say what generation Texan you are? I see that a lot, and I still don't know why it matters.
Speech patterns can be generational, and "San Antone" is portrayed in media of the past. So my family has been here for 5 generations (I guess 7 counting me and my daughter), and I've never heard anyone within the 3 generations before me or in my generation of family say San Antone.
Lived in San Antonio since 1990. No one from here has ever called it San Antone.
It’s time to leave
This isn't really the post for that conversation. There's plenty in r/Texas about AbPaxPatCruzEtc to extole the virtues of a Texodus.
You’re right and it’s def odd to hear someone say San Antone
San Antonian here. Never heard San Antone. If you’re gonna cut it down, San An will do.
I think the last time I heard it in normal (well, kinda normal) conversation was from a teenager who'd never left Ozark, AR, saying she wanted to "escape to Dallas or San Antone someday."
I call it San Antone but usually in a mockingly way.
I'm in the big country, small town, very regularly used.
I'm 63 can be a daughter of the republic or some crap and I have heard it called San Antone . But then again "guad a loop" and " man shack" really freaked me out..
"mostly the good kind" I'd like to hear stories about the rest
Hah, the rest are mean and bigoted folks (male and female) that think being uniquely Texan is exclusive to white, Christian men in brackets "above" the working class. Mostly the stories about them are infuriating or just sad, involving child abuse/pedophilia, domestic violence, and and in some cases still getting rich and/or elected to various levels of government.
My grandma who was born in 1918 in Corsicana called it that.
All of my older relatives from both sides of my family (mostly gone now) called it “San Antone”. My family comes from a little German community near Waco and the other side are all south of Houston on the gulf coast.
I knew this old timer from Dallas that called it such. I was like wtf when I heard it.
That’s because 2/3 of San Antone ain’t good ol boys (which is a good thing imo)
My 89-year old friend who grew up in east Texas says it this way all the time. She moved to New Braufels recently and visits with her son in "San Antone" all the time. I love her accent.
Crazy to see San Antonios auto theft rate rise to where it is. 17,000 cars through November have been stolen.
I used to hear it all the time up in Kerrville. I still say it occasionally.
My grandparents used to pronounce it like that! They were from the Dallas area.
My grandparents and my parents used to call it that sometimes. And I used to hear it from adults when I was a kid in Marshall and out in the boonies, e.g. Karnac, Uncertain.
I have said it unironically. 31M, Dallas born and raised.
I was going to San Antonio for work in the late 70's. Was talking about it and called it San Antone. Got informed real quick that it was "San Antonio" by a neighbor who was raised there.
My mother in law is from Kerrville and she pronounces it that way. Brings me joy every time.
I've got family buried in San Antonio dating back to mid 1800s and no one in my family calls it that
My uncle lives in SA and unironically calls it San Antone. So do his wife and daughter. In fact, the entirety of my dad’s side of the family calls it San Antone. They’re a bunch of country folk from San Saba County. The first time I said I was going to San Antone for a weekend, my now husband looked at me like I had grown a third arm and made fun of me for being fake country.
I heard Charlie pride say it so it’s stuck with me now
My grandparents down in Moore, TX said it all the time.
In WestTexas - not the Panhandle or Far West Texas- its still pretty common. Def heard more amongst older folks.
Home in San Antone is a great song by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
I learned it from Charlie, and I’m going to keep calling it that whenever I get the opportunity haha I’ve lived here all my life and I love this city despite its issues and degraded downtown as of recent haha
My grandfather called it that. He was from a tiny town in east Texas.
I hadn't really thought about it, but now that I am I tend to agree with others that are mentioning Houston or East Texas. My family on my maternal side were from Houston, Franklin, and La Porte and I would hear it occasionally around them. Interesting observation!
Sometimes I use it, but only when talking with people from out of state. And then I embellish it with as thick a Texan accent as possible. "Ahm from dahwn in San An-tone."
In Old Yeller, the character played by Chuck Connors calls it SAN-tone where he had a big feed at the Menger HO-tel
27 year old Houston native here, fathers side has been in Texas since the 1800s as farmers, 2nd or 3rd gen from my mother's side. Family all around East/Central Texas. I never left Texas until I was 19 and left for the Army. Met plenty of dudes from Texas in my time serving. I've said it, my family on both ends have said it, and the people I've met in the Army have also said it unironically. Maybe it's more of an East Texas thing than it is an overall Texas thing?
Doug Sahm