India, Feb. 20 -- A social media exchange over Indian-American visibility in Texas has snowballed into a heated online debate after a US professor pushed back against a content creator's remark comparing Dallas to "New Delhi".

The controversy began when Korean content creator Kangmin Lee posted on X about his experience flying into Dallas. "Just flew into Dallas, over half of my flight was Indian and every other person at the airport is Indian. Am I in Texas or New Delhi? What is going in Dallas?" he wrote.

His post drew sharp reactions, including from US academic Wilfred Reilly, who countered the claim by pointing to demographic data. Retweeting Lee's post, Reilly, an associate professor at Kentucky State University, wrote, "Texas is 1...