Texas Pride Explained

Sorry, If this shouldn't be posted here.

Texas Pride Explained.

A discussion broke out in the lobby of a college dorm. The floor of the dorm had gathered to talk about an up-coming lock down drill. It was a very mixed group and the discussion became heated and off topic. Some of the group were gay, some straight, some women, some men, some black, some white, some Mexican, some Asian, some a mix of many. Some were liberal, some conservative, some Republicans, some Democrats, and some didn't really care about politics at all. A few were from the country, others from the city, Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, atheist and several persuasions in between. Despite there differences, it just so happened that all the students but one were native Texans. The arguments were getting pretty rowdy when the only non-Texan stood up and said," Well we all can agree Texas sucks." The room did instantly agree, but not quite as the out of state student thought. Luckily for him, the lobby was only on the second floor and the yellow rose bushes broke his fall.

 

No, I wrote this blurb myself based on some events that really happened and, yes, I purposefully wrote it Facebook style. I was curious how widespread this attitude was in Texas. I thought since Clutchfans has a large and varied population, it would be a good place to post and see the reaction.

There were two events I experienced that helped generate this scenario.

1. A friend from Maryland laughed after Dallas gave up a touchdown. At the time he was standing at the back of a lobby full of Dallas fans. I knew the group didn't all get along, but when my friend laughed, every head in the room turned to face him.

2. I was on another chat forum and I noticed that no matter what our politics or philosophy, once we discovered we were Texans there was a bond and an enjoyment in pushing, tongue in cheek, Texas stereotypes when speaking with non-Texans or non-Americans. Especially, when they brought them up. ie. "Do you own an oil well?" Sometimes we would even make something up if it went with the spirit of the stereotype. For example, a friend of mine from Illinois told me he was going AFK to open a can of chili for dinner. I told him we can't do that in Texas. He asked why. I said eating canned chili is a felony in this state. He laughed and from then on would say he was committing a Texas Felony whenever he would get canned chili.

I'm sure other places have similar attitudes and as far as purposefully playing into stereotypes? Well, I had a high school student who was from Nigeria who had his classmates convinced he went to carrying a spear and had hunted lions and elephants with it. I called him on his stories one day and discovered he was a Doctor's sun who was a city kid from Lagos. He'd never been out in the wild.

The discussion part of thread? My opinion is I think a healthy dose of regionalism/nationalism is ok and can even be positive if it is not coupled with haughtiness.

 

Should have spell checked this a bit better.