What do you guys think of Texas and the people who live here?

[Terrifying beans]

You gave the world Bill Hicks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Janis Joplin and Pantera. So A winRAR is you.

 

[indiangrunt91]

I'm Indian(from India) who was born in Galveston.
I moved to Dallas when I was 8 and I go to college in Austin
So Texas is what I know and I love it here
You run into the occasional rednecks and hicks but you get that anywhere
In my opinion it's an excellent state.

 

[Hectix777]

Let me put it like this: new neighbor moved in next door in your apartment; you decide to welcome her because she is hot and it's a good sign of a proper welcome. You spend 2 and a half hours making a perfectly baked, glazed, and awesome tasting cake, it's perfect, should be in a magazine. You go next door to give it to her, you find out that she has a boyfriend but he is some several hundred miles away, you still have a chance but if she mentions him it might last longer. You think," i can't woo her she's spoken for," but that just crosses off one reason you come. You still have the cake you spent nearly 3 hours baking, you offer it to her and she says," No thank you, I don't like sweets." You basically feel like you just spent 3 hours on a perfect, when you hate baking, in order to both attempt to woo her and also make her feel welcome. Are you going to politely walk away, insist that she tries it until the sun sets, or get pissed that she thinks your cooking tastes like crap? I'd get pissed.

That makes no sense to me, though. She's not insulting your cooking (or baking, in this case) she's just refusing on the grounds of not liking the type of food that's being presented. It's not personal - although in this case she would be a complete snob for refusing. I'd understand getting upset/mad for having wasted that time and for her not being appreciative of you doing so, because a flat-out refusal is inconsiderate on her part. But getting upset because it's as an insult to your ability? That's silly because that implication was never made in any way, shape, or form. It has everything to do with the cake and nothing to do with you.

Still, it'd feel like a mighty blow to the balls.

 

[Jiefu]

I think Texans are a diverse group of people to whom very few, if any, common traits be can assigned (aside being Texan, of course).

 

[Hectix777]

You gave the world Bill Hicks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Janis Joplin and Pantera. So A winRAR is you.

Don't forget NASA, Id tech, the Fighting Texas Aggie Band, George Bush (Sr. not Jr.), and Chuck Friggin' Norris.

 

[jpoon]

I lived there for a few years and some of them are the nicest people you've ever met and fun to hang with to boot. Some of them are assholes or are prejudiced tossers and are not good to be around. Just about like anywhere else really.

 

[FirebirdXR]

As long as you steer clear from rural areas, Texas is overall great.
Sure, you a hit a walking stereotype here and there, but I rather live here than, say... New York.

Plus Texas is a boon for aspiring video game and computer personnel... second only to California.

 

[fix-the-spade]

I'm seriously curious about what the Escapist thinks about me and my homeland.

Well, I'veonly ever met one Texan (who I knew was a Texan), he was Colin Edwards and he was... a really nice guy actually.

So based on him I have to say you're a nice bunch. Although you buy too many guns, I know Mexico is the next stop south but you still don't need that much firepower.

 

[icame]

To say it in less then 12 words: Ignorant, racist, bible bumpers who need to get with the times.

I'm not saying most Texans are like this. Hell 95% of them probably aren't. It just seems that all we hear about from Texas is bad things. Kind of feel bad for the sane people there.

 

[Berethond]

probably normal people.

since i live in Alabama im subject to extreme stereotyping, so i dont really judge people by state.
(except Californians )

What's wrong with Californians?

 

[nekoali]

Honestly, Texas scares me. Not necessarily Texans, but some of them. The direction and atmosphere of the state as a whole scares me. I have some friends who live in Texas. Perfectly wonderful and nice people. And I am sure that most of the people who live in Texas are quite nice, just like anywhere else. So long as you believe in what they believe in.

Texas is so conservative I think next election they should just call it an infra-red state. This is the state which recently wanted to re-write their history books so that they were more in line with their conservative, Democracy loving rules. I'd like to repeat that: They want to re-write history to how they like it. And as I understand it Texas produces a lot of the school texts that go out all over the country...

And their stance on LGBT issues is truely, truely frightening, discriminatory and down right hateful. And yet many legislators feel it doesn't go far enough. Seriously they want to make it a felony to be gay...

Texas: The people might be nice, but the lawmakers and enforcers are scarily ultra-fundamentalist conservative so much that it hurts. And the people agree enough to let them continue, so...

It is one of the few states that for me are entirely a no way would I ever live there for any reason whatsoever. I would be terrified of being beat up every time I left my house.

disclaimer of course, this is not saying there aren't plenty of other scary batshit crazy homophobes elsewhere...

 

[Hectix777]

To say it in less then 12 words: Ignorant, racist, bible bumpers who need to get with the times.

I'm not saying most Texans are like this. Hell 95% of them probably aren't. It just seems that all we hear about from Texas is bad things. Kind of feel bad for the sane people there.

That's your text book definition of a stereotype: an assumption on a person's culture or race as defined by another, usually focussing on the negative qualities of the person's race or culture and not the positive aspects.

 

[ShakyFiend]

Your media dosent help, you ever watched the family guy episode in Texas? Yeah... But then again I know you cant all be incestuousness, racist, banjo-stummin, homophobic, nationalist hill-billies. That would be like saying all English people are xenophobic and drink tea... Yeah bad example, but any positive feelings I have towards Texans happen despite everything iv ever heard about them.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Eh...no opinion. As much as I hate conservatives and rednecks, it's not like they all come from Texas, and it's not like all Texans are those things.

So, whatever. I'm sure plenty of Texans are nice liberal folks.

 

[M Rotter]

Austin is awesome

 

[monkey_man]

They need more gun.
That's all i can think of.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I'm dating one now, but I find them entirely funny. They like to say they're completely independent and important, but pretty much any of thier claims can be equaled by any other state.

They're like each of the other 49 states, weak and pitiful alone, great and powerful together.

 

[Hectix777]

They need more gun.
That's all i can think of.

WE NEED MOAR DAKKA!!!