What do you guys know or think about Texas?

[JJG]

Originally Posted by NordikNerd

Texas is

Cattle
Oil
J.R
Guns
Pickup Trucks
Cowboys
Southfork
T-bone steaks
Flannel shirts
Country Music

Yiihaa !

YEE-haw!

If you're gonna stereotype, at least get those right.

[Rdx MG]

One of my favorite US states. I love Texas.

[Kiboko]

[Sweet Zombie Jesus]

[weava]

My thoughts on texas

-king of the hill is one of my top 5 shows of all time
-they love high school football
-home of people retarded enough to vote for rick perry

-I have been in Dallas, Houston, Lubbock, and El Paso. Dallas and Houston are the poster child of American Sprawl. El Paso is the least american feeling city I've ever been in, then again 2/3rds of the metro area lives on the Mexico side of the border.

[master-chivas]

Dallas, San Antonio, Houston are cool the rest is a redneck farmer steaks eating noman's land...

[Highcliff]

texas....
I like some movies about texas...

http://www.btchflcks.com/2011/08/bes...series-no.html

[Mornnb]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

I've always wanted to know what foreigners thought about Texas?

I've never been there. I respect it as an economically powerful state of the US. From what I know in some ways reminds me of my country Australia. The cowboy and ranch culture, a hell of a lot like Queensland. The obsession with BBQs. Whole boastful proud Texans thing, is something that is a lot like Australians. But I also have this impression of a crazy place of gun mad science hating bible thumpers. I don't know how much truth there is to that stereotype, but as an atheist bisexual from a very liberal big city I don't think of Texas as a place for me.
I've heard Austin is better in those respects?

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by Mornnb

I've never been there. I respect it as an economically powerful state of the US. From what I know in some ways reminds me of my country Australia. The cowboy and ranch culture, a hell of a lot like Queensland. The obsession with BBQs. Whole boastful proud Texans thing, is something that is a lot like Australians. But I also have this impression of a crazy place of gun mad science hating bible thumpers. I don't know how much truth there is to that stereotype, but as an atheist bisexual from a very liberal big city I don't think of Texas as a place for me.
I've heard Austin is better in those respects?

Houston is the largest city to have ever elected a lesbian mayor and Dallas has even elected a lesbian sheriff so it is not that unfriendly to GLBT individuals although some of the small towns might be a different matter, plus I am agnostic myself and I have had no problems living here so far as almost everyone that I run into keeps their religion to themselves.

Anyways if you are refering to the science/history textbook controversy it should be noted that it was unpopular among Texas residents as well and the board members of the school board that instigated that change were voted out of office.

[The Cake On BBQ]

I don't really know much about Texas, only streotypes:
Rednecks, Cowboys, oil, desert, people who love to bbq, people who love guns, beer-o-holics, homophobics, xenophobics, people who wear shitty shirts all the time, people who speak with a funny accent, die-hard christians, stupid frat parties, republicans.

[desertpunk]

Austin TX

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[Crazy4scapers]

A backward vile gun obsessed state full of religious extremist christian taliban.
Hate everything it represents.

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by Crazy4scapers

A backward vile gun obsessed state full of religious extremist christian taliban.
Hate everything it represents.

[WeimieLvr]

As one would expect, the Texas stereotypes are alive and well outside of the U.S. But hopefully Americans are not as uninformed about a state within their own country.

[mhays]

I'm sure Texans would generally describe San Francisco, Boston, etc., with a nuanced understanding!

Much like the eye goes to movement, people's attention goes to what's different or flashy, not what's the same. Texas has all kinds and some neighborhoods are exceptions, but overall it's obviously more bible-thumping, right wing, sprawly, etc., with weaker core cities than nearly all coastal regions.

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by mhays

I'm sure Texans would generally describe San Francisco, Boston, etc., with a nuanced understanding!

This just proves how provincial the rest of the US is as far as I am concerned.

Many if not most "Texans" are actually either transplants or the children of transplants from either the rest of the US (inc New York, California, Illinois, Florida, Michigan, etc) or from a different country altogether (such as Vietnam, India, Pakistan, El Salvador, Colombia, Laos, Honduras, China, Venezuela, Nigeria, Mexico, UK, etc). But somehow a few ignorant posters think that the whole state is somehow reminiscent of the movie "Deliverance".

[koolio]

Texas is my favourite state in the US.

[mhays]

Originally Posted by diablo234

This just proves how provincial the rest of the US is as far as I am concerned.

Many if not most "Texans" are actually either transplants or the children of transplants from either the rest of the US (inc New York, California, Illinois, Florida, Michigan, etc) or from a different country altogether (such as Vietnam, India, Pakistan, El Salvador, Colombia, Laos, Honduras, China, Venezuela, Nigeria, Mexico, UK, etc). But somehow a few ignorant posters think that the whole state is somehow reminiscent of the movie "Deliverance".

Are you really suggesting that Texans know more about outsiders than vice versa? And does being a newcomer make someone more knowlegeable about anyplace other than where they came from?

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by mhays

Are you really suggesting that Texans know more about outsiders than vice versa? And does being a newcomer make someone more knowlegeable about anyplace other than where they came from?

Not necessarily (although having a large number of people who have lived elsewhere do contribute to a place being considered more worldly overall compared with other places where there is less migration), I am just saying that some of the comments on here are pretty retarded to say the least. Bottomline you can't group 25 million people together under one label, and Texas has a little bit of everything from techies, to hispanics, muslims, hindus, vegans, athiests, gays, etc and for the most part everyone gets along. It's like saying that California is full of hippies even though you have cities like Bakersfield and Redding which makes many cities in Texas look liberal by comparison.

[Haddington]

Sorry I always thought that Bush 1.0 and 2.0 were Texan too. Personally I think Texas gets a bad press, especially from the 'liberal' states on the east and west coast. Just look at the charachter Sheldon (and his mother) in the Big Bang Theory.

I'm not a religious person so wonder how I would fit in !

Having said that it is my life's ambition to drive coast to coast across the USA - and Texas will certainly be on my list.