any of you TX boys ever notice that when you go out of town and people ask where you're from, and you say TX, it always gets a response?

people who live in other states are "from" their respective state... they're "from" New Hampshire, they're "from" Kansas, "from" Florida, etc.

but we're TEXANS!!!

Forrest

 

This is too fun of a subject not to post another reply. Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking any other state but it tickles me the misconceptions people have about Texas. When I was in Alabama people were talking about it being hot and I would tell them its not hot until its over 100. They would say"Yea, but its a dry heat. Obviously they haven't been to Houston in August. Or they think of all of Texas as being flat desert, cactus and tumbleweeds. Of course they think of Louisiana as being swamp so I will ask them if they think its suddenly changes from swamp to desert when you cross the state line? And no, we don't all have big ranches or cadillacs with longhorns on the hood!! It is big though. I heard a guy say he when he left Beaumont his kid was three years old. By the time he got to El Paso he was in the third grade!!

 

I am related to Davey Crockett. I'm serious! By marrage or something like that. Maybe he got caught with someone in my family tree!

 

Dallas in the summer is bad enough... Houston in the summer?!?!?! there's a reason I said Houston sucks...

Forrest

 

Any of you NOT from TX feel like the Texans try just a little too hard to prove just how good a place TX is? The rest of us just say where we're from and let it stand at that.

Funny thing, when I was stationed there, people would often ask where I was from and when I told them ME, originally, they would invariably ask, "why on earth would you move to TX?? I mean, we're from here and we love it, but I can't understand why anyone would want to MOVE here." No kidding - I heard that at least a dozen times in my time down there.

My wife also pointed out an interesting point: it's very hostile down there. Everything's trying to kill you: the weather, the bugs, the plants (we had a particularly sharp plant in our backyard for a while), the drivers.... That pretty much sums it up.

You guys (who love it) are welcome to it; you can have our share of land... we'll only be back to visit, end even then, infrequently.

 

I've been all over the US except into the extreme NE....

I can ask anyone anywhere to draw or identify the TX flag and they can with no problem. I ask them what their own state flag looks like and 50% of the time they can't tell me or the discription is very vague - "it's green with something in the middle" - "it's white, I think".....

I think that pretty much sums it up....

 

Joel... The big response is from OTHER people... I generally don't make a big to-do about TX...

 

The same hold true for the shape of Texas. Show a picture of Texas to quiet a few people in the world and they can identify it.

MikeyB

 

Holy Cow, it looks like I started something again. Glad to see so many CTD enthusiasts are also fellow Texans. Me?

“Well my momma met my daddy down in Alabama. They tied the knot so here I am. Born on the bayou on the Texas Line , Loved Louisiana and raised on Jambalaya………”

Just kidding, well not really. I was born on the Louisiana/Texas border in a small town called Orange Texas then moooooved to Fort Worth and spent my first 33 years there. Yep, Texas is a state a mind. Have seen the entire state. Funny thing, working in Pharmaceuticals I have traveled the entire continental US (just about) by jet and to me, Texas seems bigger. When you drive 2 days to get from Texarkana to El Paso and you can hop a jet and be in New York in a few hours it just seems that way. I take every advantage to show how proud I am of my home too. If it means going into the office on casual Friday with my Justin ropers and Wranglers and parking the CTD next to the company presidents Mercedes I will do it in a heartbeat. When I moved here it took an eternity to find good Mexican food…they just don’t get it. For awhile I was convinced that Taco Hell was as good as it got. Ask them for a bowl of Queso and they look at you funny.

Believe me the first place I took my fiancee’ last week was Don Pablo’s and I ate like there was no tomorrow. Probably woke her up a few times that night but that’s what real love it all about right?

Anyway, if your from Texas you will know what I mean about the state of mind. I remember seeing the Red River from the plane flying back to Spokane and feeling sad, like "there she goes”.

Let’s don’t even start about Texas women….. Anybody remember that old song? Better stop before I get in trouble with Tonya. Luckily she does not read DTR….I hope!

 

Texas is just so diverse. From the East Texas Piney Woods, to the Swampy Gulf Coast, to the Beutiful Hill Country, To the North TExas Plains, To the West Texas Mountain Ranges, To the the Tropical (lol) South Texas Valley.......Take your pick, there is something for almost everyone.

Im a flatlander, and proud of it!

 

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Originally posted by Joel
"Funny thing, when I was stationed there, people would often ask where I was from and when I told them ME, originally, they would invariably ask, "why on earth would you move to TX?? I mean, we're from here and we love it, but I can't understand why anyone would want to MOVE here." No kidding - I heard that at least a dozen times in my time down there."

Texans are just politly trying to talk you into going back to were you came from

 

is that possible?

 

Why, certainly Texans can speak politely. I was raised to say "Yes, sir" and "Yes, ma'am", "Please" and "Thank you" - weren't you?

Rusty

 

Dr. Evil and Hoss,

Dr. ....I'm native born from Bay City, Texas.....................and Hoss, you know about Aggie football.......Now that's a state of mind......

Tom

 

It may be because I've always been told, there are only 2 things that come from Texas, and 1 of them ain't got horns.