The Lower Rio Grande Valley, commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. A large seasonal influx occurs of "winter Texans" — people who come down from the north for the winter and then return north before summer arrives. Wikipedia

The state of Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by both area (after Alaska) and population (after California). Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest; and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Texas is one of seven states that lack a state income tax and is ranked No. 2 for total agricultural revenue, behind California. Wikipedia