So, Texas.

[Helmholtz Watson]

So can we please, please stop acting like Texas is full of idiots with little to no exception? Please?

Don't take it to heart, people generalize everybody. For example, when I go down south, I get asked if I'm a Yank.....as in the Union. I just laugh that these people still have the mindset of Confederates vs the Union.

Luckily, when I visit Texas I have never encountered such attitudes. However I will say this though, at least in Huston, you guys sound like your from up North and you really don't have much of an accent.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

Hang on...

You're nothing like Dallas? I half expected everybody to either dress either like Bobby or JR Ewing. I truly believed you all worked for Oil Companies and ranches. This disappoints me greatly. I hope you're happy.

 

[Dragon Zero]

The coastal region (including Houston) is one that I sadly know little about having only visited once for a Renissance Fair.

Here in Houston, we also have a large and very diverse population, in my area alone (Technically closer to Cypress but I'll refrain from trying to explain it lest your head explodes) we have a large East Asian, Indian, Pakistani, Eastern European, Mexican, Central/South American, and Arab population. Hell, I think there's at least five Sikh families in and around my neighborhood, (nice folk, actually). Politically we're actually more diverse, like I said we elected an openly gay mayor, and while we still lean right, the left also has a good sized presence.

We've also got our fair share of museums, like the Holocaust Museum, Health Museum, The Jung Center of Houston, and a weather museum to name a few. The Astrodome and other large stadiums are also here. We've got a fair amount of Fairs and festivals, like the aforementioned Renaissance Fair and Houston's Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Coastal Texas also has pretty shitty weather, where if you don't like it you can literally wait 5 minutes or walk down the street to change it in some cases. My old reverend had a bumper sticker that summed it up quite nice, "I know it's hot in Hell, but is it Humid?" I still quite vividly remember Ike when it hit and how the day after it was so humid I literally couldn't breath. Of course Beaumont and it's area got hit the worst, I remember helping out on a Mission Trip for my Church a year after and how it looked as bad as Mississippi did when I went there for a different mission trip to help with the damage from Katrina.

Anyway, I could go on for awhile, but I think I gave a good description. Well A description at least.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

College Station? Screw that, go to Austin. Hippies, vagrants, openly gay people, anti-gun people, intellectuals, computer specialists, THREE Mosques, Indian/Chinese/Thai/German/Italian/Nigerian/etc restaurants, and on, all over the city. One visit to Austin should be enough to destroy ANYONE?S perception of Texas.

While I have no beef with Texas, you can't judge a state by its big cities. That's like saying all of Georgia should be judged by Atlanta. Hell, Atlanta isn't even *part* of Georgia culture. Half the time it doesn't even have the accent.

Though I will generally agree with everyone here who says that stereotypes are dumb and quit that crap. I love me some Southern food and hospitality, as someone from Nowhere, GA.

 

[tangoprime]

I've bitched about my state so much that it's becoming unhealthy, but this time, it seems I'm defending it. And yes, this forum made me post this.

Yes, we have conservatives in office. Yes, we are a mainly Christian state. No, we are not all absolutely backwards-ass, discrimination-breeding, homophobic, racist, culturally-blind, pants-on-head retards.

Your right technically all people in a state the size of Texas can not be such. But you have to admit the vast majority of your state is exactly that. And if you think otherwise prove to me and everyone else here that Texas has been horribly misrepresented by incorrect stereotypes.

The vast majority of our state voted for a governor who has had our state at the top of, or in 2nd place for the cnbc's best states for business ranking for the last few years? We apologize that we actually enjoy being successful. Seriously though, the backwards, homophobe, non-cultured, retarded stereotype is complete BS and that's apparently to anyone who has actually ever been here.

Be it Dallas/Ft.Worth, Houston, Austin (especially), College Station, or San Antonio, the only indicator you're in Texas would be temperature and the fact that there are people everywhere who seem to have jobs (and, well, maybe the lone stars decorating almost everything). If you were dropped off in southwest Houston or spots up around Richardson/Garland in Dallas, you may not even be able to tell what country you were in, only that you're able to get authentic ethnic food near what appears to be a magical border between southeast Asia and Mexico.

And seriously... anyone who doesn't believe this, go to Austin, just go to Austin. It's like San Francisco, but for people who actually want to keep most of their paycheck. Clean, green, and gorgeous.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I've been living in Plano since coming down from Pennsylvania to go to grad school at SMU a little over four years ago, and ended up working here in Dallas.

There definitely have been some things that surprised me about this part of Texas (my only other experience with the state was living in San Angelo ten years ago when I was in the military). It's a lot more multicultural than I expected (though also way more segregated), and instead of there being tons of rednecks, it's more of the super Jesusy soccer-mom types around here and a bit more upscale.

I have a ton of awesome friends who are from Texas, and while the job market is way better here than where I'm from, this is pretty much the last place on Earth I would want to spend the rest of my life. I literally have to drive hours to see anything resembling nature, and everything around here is just highways, strip malls, and cookie cutter housing developments. I can't sit outside and enjoy the outdoors any time of the year, because if it's not 110 degrees outside, I'm being assaulted by mosquitoes (West Nile capital of the world, lol) and the smell of pollution from all the cars.

Austin and San Antonio were pretty cool, though. Too bad they're also like 5 thousand hours away v:

So yeah, Texas has it's ups and downs, but overall, I think you can keep it.

 

[Lieju]

From what I've heard from people who live in Texas, it's very different depending on where you live; Austin is totally different from the countryside.

Generalising a whole state is obviously inaccurate.

 

[Daveman]

Shush. Everyone knows all stereotypes are true so stop trying to say otherwise.

Typical rednecks... so confrontational...

Now I'm off to drink tea and punch some frenchmen.

 

[Dangit2019]

So can we please, please stop acting like Texas is full of idiots with little to no exception? Please?

Don't take it to heart, people generalize everybody. For example, when I go down south, I get asked if I'm a Yank.....as in the Union. I just laugh that these people still have the mindset of Confederates vs the Union.

Luckily, when I visit Texas I have never encountered such attitudes. However I will say this though, at least in Huston, you guys sound like your from up North and you really don't have much of an accent.

It becomes more apparent in the rural areas.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

So can we please, please stop acting like Texas is full of idiots with little to no exception? Please?

Don't take it to heart, people generalize everybody. For example, when I go down south, I get asked if I'm a Yank.....as in the Union. I just laugh that these people still have the mindset of Confederates vs the Union.

Luckily, when I visit Texas I have never encountered such attitudes. However I will say this though, at least in Huston, you guys sound like your from up North and you really don't have much of an accent.

It becomes more apparent in the rural areas.

Cool, I can only hope that in those areas you guys sound like your from Tennessee. haha

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I tried wearing cowboy boots (that got a bit uncomfortable).

You were doing it wrong. Boots are hard to fit properly

stop acting like Texas is full of idiots with little to no exception? Please?

Texas IS full of idiots. It also has REAL people too. Texas actually has sorta heavy gun control laws. We love owning them more than anyone else does.

Whining that no one realizes Texas is the best state in the US (and therefore one of the best places in the world) is pointless. Intelligent people are quiet, stupid people are loud and think we can/will secede. Just be secure in the knowledge that you know better, and also that being Texan makes you better than most people.

Now go get a better pair of boots, and watch Masterpiece Theater

 

[Swyftstar]

Every time I go on vacation I meet somebody from Texas. They are invariably loud, but they are also, always, the nicest people I meet while vacationing.

 

[itsthesheppy]

I was pleasantly surprised to see an episode of "What Would you Do" that staged a scene where a waitress berated a lesbian couple in a family diner. They did the test in the northeast (where I live) and in Texas, and found that people in texas were a great deal more likely to stand up for the waitress.

There were a few customers who were like "Yeah, tell that homo whats up" but they were a very small minority. A great many more people actually got up in the waitress' face and told her she was out of line.

Apparently in the northeast (New York, specifically), by contrast, people were less likely to get involved.

Was rather eye-opening.

 

[CoL0sS]

Diiiiiid someone say Texas ?

I was never in Texas, nor do I know anyone from there, apart from a few very pleasant tourist I met but isn't generalizing something only shitheads and desperate comedians do ? It's almost always inaccurate.

Every time I go on vacation I meet somebody from Texas. They are invariably loud, but they are also, always, the nicest people I meet while vacationing.

Pretty much sums up my experience.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

So can we please, please stop acting like Texas is full of idiots with little to no exception? Please?

I feel your pain, dude. My state (Kansas) gets that alot too, with outsider views being either that we are some dictatorship waiting to happen and are just as bad, if not worse, than the south (a quick look at history shows why that is very wrong)....or that the "Wizard of Oz" was filmed in modern day Kansas. No serious, my mom had to go to a conferance in Georgia one time and when she said she was from Kansas, the other person literally asked her "Oh, do you all travel in covered wagons and live on farms there?" *facepalm*

I would gladly live in Texas, and if I got a job with the Texas government (or a city government) I would gladly move down there. But I am going to try in Kansas and Nebraska first. I want to stay alittle closer to home.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Though Texas did give us George H. W. Bush and his equally criminal, fascist puppet son "Dubya", it did give the rest of humanity a diamond in the rough.

Spoiler: In the form of this man

In the end, I judge people by the sum of their dreams, their beliefs and their actions. This is something that pretty much destroys every stereotype for me, personally.

 

[Erttheking]

Yeah, people on the internet tend to generalize rather horribly, this forum is nowhere near to being an exception. Really it's grating "Religious people are stupid. Americans are stupid. Group X is stupid for not having the same political views as me" really makes me loose my patience.