Happy Texas Independance Day

(BTW, the last syllable of independence is -dence, not -dance. Were you brought up through the Texas school system, too? Did they not allow you any schoolbooks after the president was shot from that building?)

Happy birthday, Ned. Feel free to declare your independece, too. :/)

(No, there's no excuse for correcting someone's misspellings with misspellings of one's own. Ya got me.)

Hey, vulva la sam. What did the four fingers pointed down to the ground say?

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Just read that the Anglos weren't wholly responsible to blame, as the Tejanos helped them along with this.

I actually like Texas and many Texans though. Except Dallas. I think i might dislike Dallas after all. And maybe Houston. But the food is great, the hats are ace, and the landscape is underrated.

tangentially related, all hail the independence of the West Florida Republic!

The Tejanos (mexicans living in Texas) fought side by side with the Anglos but when independance was won they're land was taken and many of them were kicked out of the new country. For this reason I used to hate and protest this holiday.

But time, and progress, marches on.

Come visit and lemme show you around Assassination City. Promise you won't dislike it when I'm through with you.

I've never put much store in the Alamo and don't really understand why it's been built into such a legend. It doesn't even have a basement! ;)

I love TX history and wish I spent more time reading about it. The TX His. courses I took in HS and college are about the extent of my knowledge.

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Hmmm, mmmm.

Dallas is nothing but freeways and Applebee's and BestBuys and La Quintas. Their biggest tourist attraction is a knoll of grass and a mall with a skating rink in it. The only "artsy" area is Deep Ellum, filled with bars that serve watered down Lone Star beer for people wanting to see some side project of Tripping Daisy.

The worst thing about Texas is how they puff out their fundamentalist Republican chests and strut about thinking that they live in God's Great Paradise, all the while admonishing the rest of us to Not Mess with Them. You could set fire to the state tomorrow and it'd still look the same.

A Texan calling someone else an asshole. That'd be like an asshole calling someone else a Texan.

you have a very shallow view. Like most cities the best parts aren't always the most well-known. The masses aren't often known for their good taste.

Un-pleasant, I don't know what your problem is and I'm not inclined to get into a flame war here, I have better things to do. However if you would like to come down to this place I call 'heaven on earth', this liberal, well-educated, tolerant-of-everyone, Texan will kick your ass six ways to Sunday.

Unfarmed plains on the other hand, can be awe inspiring once on in in the middle of them. the Hill Country is gorgeous, as is some of the land to the east of there. Also fond of the land around the Canadian River north of Amarillo and the Big Bend region.

The worst thing about Texas is how they puff out their fundamentalist Republican chests and strut about thinking that they live in God's Great Paradise, all the while admonishing the rest of us to Not Mess with Them. You could set fire to the state tomorrow and it'd still look the same.
A Texan calling someone else an asshole. That'd be like an asshole calling someone else a Texan.
-- Pleasant Plains (acewhiske...), March 2nd, 2004.

I FUCKING LARFED HAAARD.

Anything you want, you've got it in Texas. You want to fulfill your little childhood fantasies of being a cowpoke? Git along, city slicker, because we've still got wide-open spaces. You want to shop shop shop to your heart's content at very chichi boutiques? In every one of our cities there's at least one exclusive shopping center. You want beaches? Welcome to the Gulf of Mexico. You want desert? Drive on out toward West Texas. You want lush, rolling hills and seas of green? Hello, Hill Country calling! You want a guaranteed snow-filled winter wonderland? Come on down and meet the Panhandle!

Every one of our cities has its own unique flavor. Dallas is the home of old money and genteel Southern manners. Houston is a megametropolis, the fourth most populous city in the U.S.. El Paso is an oasis in the desert. Austin is hip and happening and full of youthful energy. San Antonio is my home and I can't express to you how much it means to me. Laredo is a little slice of Mexico right here in TX. Neither one of our cities is like the other -- I found the Dallas atmosphere completely different from S.A.'s, for example. Yet, we are all Texan to the core.

I love Texas. Texas courses through my veins as surely as its air fills up my lungs. Even if I were to move away, I would always keep a bit of Texas inside of me. As the rather tired but true saying goes, you can take the Texan out of Texas but you can't take the Texas out of the Texan. We are all raised under that big Texas sky and as a result have big hearts, think big, have big personalities, and live big.

Happy Texas Independence Day.

However...
If that earnestness had been sarcasm, you would probably be the greatest writer of all time HANDS THE F0CK DOWN.

I don't hate it. Never have, due to what you've already stated. BUT IT'S FUN TO PRETEND.

You been to Florida?
-- latebloomer (posercore24...), March 3rd, 2004.

Born there. *POW* Beatyatoit.

I wouldn't expect others to understand. Even many native Texans don't get it. Someday, though, they will.

I think we're all getting it.

Good for you, Samantha. (I mean it. I'm not trying to be snarky.)
But you can't freakin' expect everyone to be a "patriot!" or to have home pride. It doesn't always work out that way.

I don't think there's anything I'd miss being away from Texas, though (or there hasn't been before). Bad drivers, dirty air (in the 'plex), etc..

I didn't really realize how much I loved Texas until I had spent a good time away from it (and I've spent most of adult life outside of DFW).

Lived there half of my life and half of my life away, might move back to Austin someday (if I can afford it).

That said "You could set fire to the state tomorrow and it'd still look the same" is a great line.

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Outstanding

political correctness gone mad