when i was visiting family recently i realized that one of the biggest differences between Texas and MA is that MA has sooo many towns and cities. i drive through like 4 towns in 20 minutes just on my way to work. in Texas you can drive for two hours and still be in San Antonio somehow
Partly that's because MA has been settled by Europeans for longer than Texas, and partly it's because if you moved far enough away from a town that you couldn't reasonably get to church on Sunday, you built a new town with a new church, because not going to church on Sunday was unthinkable.
