1 I know, sigh. I'm a native New Yawker myself, and my friends and family STILL think we're breaking in horses and milking the cows!

Either that, or they think that all the women are like Sue Ellen and all the men like J.R.!!

2 Anti-Texan Bigotry is everywhere. My son said something with a Southern accent last night and then said that there's my Texas slang. I wanted to kick him. He heard it on a commercial.

Most irritating it is!

3 True, true! My wife is from a small town in East Texas, and has a much heavier accent than I, who grew up in a city in Central Texas. She literally did have an oil well in her back yard, but there were none where I grew up. I wasn't part of the FFA or owned a huge belt buckle, wore boots or even owned a cowboy hat. But I love Texas, I love the Texas spirit, and, well, I love Texas! I noticed that there are very few other states where the people love their state and want to settle there, heck most want to get out. However most Texans can't get enough, of well, Texas!


Craig

(Only seven references to Texas in this post.)

4 Oh, and yeah, I have to admit I hate Austin, so it is fitting that MTV picked it, since I also hate MTV (Sixth Street, that it is cool though).

Craig

(Disclaimer : Writer graduated from Texas A&M)

5 I don't mind Austin because it is a fun town, but it's the Liberal part of Texas. Of course there's nothing wrong with that, but when you spent five years out in Lubbock, TX (city with the most churches per capita in the U.S.) Austin is like another world.

The problem with the media elite ragging on Texas is that they are just jealous we can use the phrases Texas-sized, ya'll and y'ant to without hesitation or embarassment. When they use it they sound like an outsider trying to either fit in or poke fun.

Actually, I don't think I've ever used two of those three phrases out of a joking context.

6 "Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas"

Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, from Full Metal Jacket

Directions to get to Texas from North Carolina: Go west until you smell shit, go south until you step in it.

7 MTV? Do they have television in Texas?

8 People hate Texans for the same reason they hate Californians. We are too damn proud and love our states too damn much. That said the only good time I had in Texas was getting drunk after getting a speeding ticket at a bar in Odessa and watching cowboys, well basically watching their scrotums due to the tightness of their jeans, flip girls around. I wasn't impressed.

9 They don't even wanna go there with me.

10 Considering how many times I've heard Texans refer to the US as "Texas and the 49 lesser states", I'd advise you to be careful chucking rocks from your glass houses. There's an equal amount of evidence that Texans have an anti-unTexan bias.

11 Where is a better place to live?

12 Greyrooster:

I'd take my home state over Texas any day. As a matter of fact, I loved living here enough to give up a good job and a balmy climate to move back. I've been to Texas, I was underwhelmed.

13 Why has a post intended for humor turned into a state pissing contest? Lighten up people. Texans aren't your enemy. It's those damn North Dakotians!

14 What state would that be Brian?

15 Iggy,

I'm an Oregonian, and I have the webbed feet to prove it.

16 Brian B: Surely you must be kidding. I thought you guys were starving to death. Anyway, that's what Californians think. Why else would so many of you move south?
My thoughts. San Antone east is Okay. West Texas you can keep. I prefer green.
West Oregon is Okay. You can keep eastern Oregon. Taters, Onions and desert. Except for Farewell Bend which I find enchanting.
I guess Oregon is Okay. If anything is going on to make more than just making it.

17 On second thought the Williamette Valley is beautiful. Coos bay has great fishing. Bend Oregon was a great vacation place (haven't been their in years). Crater lake at dawn is fabulous. Port Orsford is neat when the fog is in. Medford is pretty and the trout fishing is unbelievable. Rouge River is one of a kind.
Have to rethink my previous post.

18 Greyrooster,

Yeah, the economy here sucks, but it's picking up. We could spend a whole thread on the reasons for that. If you're gonna make the economic health of a state the sole criterion for judgubg it,hell, I'd give Texas props over us in a heartbeat. But for natural beauty, it's hard to beat. And the cool thing is, except for maybe Hawaii, you can name any state in the Union and I'll show you part of Oregon that will remind you of it.

I prefer green too, which is why I love it here. There are parts of Eastern Oregon that are beautiful and fascinating. Like Paleontology? Try the John Day Fossil Beds. The Bend area has some kick-ass skiing, but it's considered Central Oregon, not Eastern. The Wallowa mountains in the northeast corner remind a lot of people of the alps, very sharp, steep, and craggy.

As for more than making it, that's subjective. We have a saying up here, "Pay me in scenery." From the freeway I frive on to and from work each day, you can see a mountain (The Three Sisters) that has snow year round. You can take a city bus to the McKenzie, one of the best fly fishing rivers in the country. a half hour drive puts me in the middle of the forest. And, most importantly, it's where I was born. For others, if you love your home state as much asI do mine, more power to you, and Irespec that, but don't pity me just because I'm not there. This is where i'm happy.

The Wilamette valley (where I live now) is OK, but it's too flat for my tastes. I grew up in roseburg, which is in souther Oregon, a more mountainous region (though we always called them "hills", I'm told they're mountains). You pegged it on the other descriptions, and I'd say that Crater Lake is the most beautiful spot inthe state. Amazing how blue the water is. Bend's become an even bigger vacation destination, especially if you ski or golf.

19 Dude is definitely more accurate the yeehaw in Austin.

Much more of a hippie culture here.

20 I've heard tales of how liberal Austin is. To be honestly self-critical, I have a hard time believing it could be as bad as Berkeley-on-the-Willamette, aka Eugene.

21 Well howdy,
coming from Toyah Texas (very small town), I can say that most Texans are really not the cowboys people say they are. As for me, I may really be a cowboy in my ranch but who cares? There are cowboys in Chily and Mexico, doesn't men they all say Yee Haa now does it? I do though ... but hey, everything's bigger in Texas and no state is friendlier and nicer! Y'all be good now y'hear?

22 Here is an interesting thought, my fiance is an Aussie. I fianlly took him to Texas (Dallas and all around the Austin area). He said he had never been anywhere that reminded him more of Australia- in attitude and places. (however we didnt get to hit the Rio Grande Valley...which I still think is in another dimension)