why are native texas so proud?

[Lonny]

i was bourne in Sacramento, CA and moved to Texas 2 years ago. Since moving here, I have always heard people "brag" that they are from Texas and always calling people from other states "yankees" and "hippies". what gives? why are native texans so proud?

[TE]

We Texans have big balls tbqh

[Thompson]

California= :whine

Also, we know how to spell "Texans."

[greyforest]

because we were here before all you yanks and hippies

qtiyd

[Buddy Holly]

Mouse moved here from California two years ago...? LOL

Mouse trying to give his troll handles back stories now... yikes!

[Lonny]

Texas and Texans have a lot to be proud of.

[jjktkk]

texas and texans have a lot to be proud of.

+1.

[Lonny]

just so odd because in california or florida you dont hear people saying "fuck you. im from cali/florida"
something instills power in texas.

just wish they had more rolling rock rather than lonestar.
^rack

[The Gemini Method]

Fuck you, I'm from Cali. :)

[ChumpDumper]

Why is everyone else so ashamed?

[CubanSucks]

just so odd because in california or florida you dont hear people saying "fuck you. im from cali/florida"
something instills power in texas.

just wish they had more rolling rock rather than lonestar.
^rack

cause those states suck ass. I mean, Texas is Texas, you know? You wouldn't understand, you're from fag HQ

[TheManFromAcme]

Texas and Texans have a lot to be proud of.

:tu

I am a native SoCal guy and have been here in S.A. going on 6 years. Tons of history in this state and quite frankly I love it.

Texans got big chip on their shoulders but it's cool. It's all part of the experience.

I still get goose bumps when I walk inside the Alamo and think about the bravery of the men that defended it. Men who faced death and said, "bring it on".

Texas has every right to brag. :toast

[cheguevara]

LOL native

tell that to the native americans

[AmericanPsycho]

I swagger.

[BlackSwordsMan]

we keep those blacks out is why

[AmericanPsycho]

we keep those blacks out is why

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_k07pirzBU34/TGpy5BVAg1I/AAAAAAAAFpA/XSbkAnE3KEA/s400/ObamaBlackCowboyHat.jpg

[TacoCabanaFajitas]

I didn't move to SA until 4th grade, and by the time I moved away in 10th grade I was proud to have grown up in Texas, and can't wait to get back. The people, the food, the culture, and the history is wonderful. As soon as I finish school here in Arizona I am packing my family up and moving back. I think I need one of those "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could" bumper stickers

[Blake]

i was bourne in Sacramento, CA and moved to Texas 2 years ago. Since moving here, I have always heard people "brag" that they are from Texas and always calling people from other states "yankees" and "hippies". what gives? why are native texans so proud?

I've called plenty of austin natives "hippies"

[MannyIsGod]

Spend a year in a place like New Mexico and you'll realize why you should be proud to be a Texan.

[phyzik]

just so odd because in california or florida you dont hear people saying "fuck you. im from cali/florida"
something instills power in texas.

just wish they had more rolling rock rather than lonestar.
^rack

Bullshit.

Just listen to any number of rap songs to get your "Im from Cali/Florida" fix. :lol

[lefty]

" Don't mess with Texas "


Really, WTF ?

[Frenzy]

Yeee - hawwww!

[Nathan Explosion]

Name one other state in the union that was its own country first. That's why. The Texas flag is the only state flag allowed to fly at the same height as the US flag. And our Capitol building is taller than the one in DC. We're not your typical state and we know it.

[MannyIsGod]

Name one other state in the union that was its own country first. That's why. The Texas flag is the only state flag allowed to fly at the same height as the US flag. And our Capitol building is taller than the one in DC. We're not your typical state and we know it.

California.

[Dex]

The Texas flag is the only state flag allowed to fly at the same height as the US flag.


It is a common urban legend that the Texas flag is the only state flag that is allowed to fly at the same height as the U.S. flag. Allegedly, Texas has this right inherently (as a former independent nation) or because it negotiated special provisions when it joined the Union (this version has been stated as fact on a PBS website).[14] However, the legend is false. Neither the Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States nor the Ordinance of Annexation[15] contain any provisions regarding flags. According to the United States Flag Code, any state flag can be flown at the same height as the U.S. flag; the U.S. flag should be on its right (the viewer's left), however. Consistent with the U.S. Flag Code, the Texas Flag Code specifies that the state flag should either be flown below the U.S. flag if on the same pole or at the same height as the U.S. flag if on separate poles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Texas

[SourCandy]

Yeee - hawwww!

:lmao frenzy your no cowboy.

[BlackSwordsMan]

ill be your cowboy sweetums

[The Gemini Method]

ill be your cowboy sweetums

Took a little longer for the usual SourCandy response to come...but thurr it goes.

[BlackSwordsMan]

u jelly bro?

[BlackSwordsMan]

im just messing
unless she got an unclipped gift between her legs i aint even interested

[The Gemini Method]

u jelly bro?

Naw...I'm not jelly at all. It's all you, Black.

[BlackSwordsMan]

thats my boy!

[BlackSwordsMan]

tell me some interesting laker facts so I can drop em on sourcandy and she be all like u smart!

[The Gemini Method]

I think just saying the Lakers are your Team B would pique her interest...

[lefty]

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/10959/funny-graphs-texas.gif

[The Gemini Method]

tell me some interesting laker facts so I can drop em on sourcandy and she be all like u smart!

Or, if she is old enough...you can say, "Man, that Chick Hearn! He once missed out on calling a game in Las Vegas to announce a college game in Fayetteville, AR and then proceeded to never miss another game for 36 years!" That'll probably get her to bite the bottom lip...for sure.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Texans got big chip on their shoulders but it's cool.

http://www.darrelplant.com/images/bush_middle_finger.jpg

[Sec24Row7]

California.

- Independence from Mexico June 14, 1846
- Annexation by the United States of America July 9, 1846

Uhh... how on earth? there wasn't communication from washington that fast...

Rumors of California's "Republic" are greatly exaggerated...

Hawaii... I buy...

[4>0rings]

i was bourne in Sacramento, CA and moved to Texas 2 years ago. Since moving here, I have always heard people "brag" that they are from Texas and always calling people from other states "yankees" and "hippies". what gives? why are native texans so proud?
Sup Kool-Aid Man

[Sisk]

i've called plenty of austin natives "hippies"

+1

[Death In June]

Austin is a metastasized California. To use a west coast analogy, great set, shitty cast and crew.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Texas has some fun parts (Austin for sure), and Dallas is alright...not crazy about the rest, tbh.

Just not a fan of a state where half its residents are inuslin-dependent by their 30's.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Texas has some fun parts (Austin for sure), and Dallas is alright...not crazy about the rest, tbh.

Just not a fan of a state where half its residents are inuslin-dependent by their 30's.

[CuckingFunt]

just so odd because in california or florida you dont hear people saying "fuck you. im from cali/florida"

You've clearly not spent much time in California.

[Drachen]

Put it to you this way. When I was an exchange student to Germany, and I went out to a bar, once word got out about where I was from I got free beer the rest of the night. None of the other American exchange students got such treatment. In fact the only other person who had drinks bought for him was the Aussie, and then only when he brought his boomerang (yes he carried it almost everywhere).

The point is: even foreigners recognize.

[ManuBalboa]

The funny thing is Texas BEGGED America to take us in ASAP, but they refused because they did not want to get caught up in the drama. Andrew Jackson threw his old friend Houston a bone on his way out.

[cherylsteele]

Name one other state in the union that was its own country first. That's why. The Texas flag is the only state flag allowed to fly at the same height as the US flag. And our Capitol building is taller than the one in DC. We're not your typical state and we know it.
Hawaii was its own sovereign kingdom,and Utah was an actual state for a short period as well, Texas is the one every realizes as independent when asked though.

[phyzik]

I cant speak for any other Texan, but I can speak for my family as to why Im so proud.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpo14

PONTON, ANDREW (1804–1850). Andrew Ponton, pioneer farmer, stockman, politician, and judge, was born in 1804 in Nelson, Amherst County, Virginia, one of four children of William and Isabell (Moreland) Ponton. With his father and brother-in-law, James Blair Patrick, he arrived in Texas on December 17, 1829. He received his land title on June 18, 1832, and was married on July 8, 1841, to Mary H. Berry in Gonzales County, Republic of Texas. Of the couple's four sons, Andrew S. was killed in the battle of Atlanta, and Thomas Jefferson was an attorney in Gonzales County.

Ponton was the last alcalde of Gonzales, elected to that position in 1835. In May 1835 he was a member of the Gonzales Committee of Safety (see COMMITTEES OF SAFETY AND CORRESPONDENCE). In September 1835, when Domingo de Ugartechea demanded that the Gonzales "come and take it" cannon be surrendered to Mexican soldiers or that Ponton be brought to San Antonio as a hostage, Ponton put off the Mexicans with excuses; he sent calls for help to the settlements and was a defender in the battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales). On February 23, 1836, William B. Travis sent Ponton an appeal asking for men and provisions for the relief of the Alamo, and men from Gonzales answered his request.

Ponton was the first judge of the Municipality of Gonzales and a member from Gonzales County of the Second Congress of the republic in 1837–38. He was the first chief justice of Lavaca County, elected on July 13, 1846. Ponton was a Mason. He died on July 4, 1850, and is buried in the Old Gonzales Masonic Cemetery, where the Texas Centennial Commission erected a marker on his grave in 1936.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Paul C. Boethel, The History of Lavaca County (San Antonio: Naylor, 1936; rev. ed., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1959). Paul C. Boethel, On the Headwaters of the Lavaca and the Navidad (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1967). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832–1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).

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Andrew Ponton was my great, great, great grandfather and I am proud of my family history. To know that my family was an integral part of keeping the mexican army at bay at that point in time...... Its crazy to think about...

The Alamo represents and resonates alot more to me than most people who visit it.... It's actually part of my heritage, and thats special to me. I have never, and will never, put up with someone badmothing my States legacy.

If it wasnt for the battle of the Alamo, alot of you would be Mexican citizens right now. It would do you well to remember that shit.

[TheManFromAcme]

http://www.darrelplant.com/images/bush_middle_finger.jpg

:toast

Love "W"

[ManuBalboa]

If it wasnt for the battle of the Alamo, alot of you would be Mexican citizens right now. It would do you well to remember that shit.

Much much much respect to your family heritage. That's awesome. A big part of it though was that Santa Ana turned into a humongous douchebag and pissed off many Mexicans who in returned helped Anglo Texans get the ball rolling. Most Anglo Texans were cool with just being a Mexican state but having a respectable voice in Mexico's delegation.

[phyzik]

Much much much respect to your family heritage. That's awesome. A big part of it though was that Santa Ana turned into a humongous douchebag and pissed off many Mexicans who in returned helped Anglo Texans get the ball rolling. Most Anglo Texans were cool with just being a Mexican state but having a respectable voice in Mexico's delegation.

Thats cool to know, I honestly did not know that.... Thanks! :toast

I've had a mind to trace back my family history for a while now.... My aunt (my fathers sister) did it a while back and traced our family lineage as far back as the early 16th century but unfortunately a house fire destroyed all her work and she gave it up....

Im thinking of taking up the cause again and retrace it all. My family has been involved with quite a few major points in time from what I remember of what she had found out. At the time I was too young to care, unfortunately.

It's kind of funny to think that my family has history with the Masons though, I've always wondered if that would get me some kind of access to them but never pursued it. :lol

[Kamala]

Even our pick up trucks have balls

[phyzik]

Even our pick up trucks have balls

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/Truck%20balls%20DT.jpg

Not to toot our Texas horn, but if America was invaded by a foreign country, Texas would still stand.... I think guns outnumber our population in Texas 3:1 at least, and thats a conservative number on my part.

Id feel sorry for any foreign invading army if they tried to take Texas.

In San Antonio alone:

Brooks Air Force base
Lackland Air Force Base
Camp Bullis
Fort Sam Houston


And thats not counting all us crazy Texans that are packing large ammounts of heat. Shit, just between me and my friends, we could probably take out a small army with the weapons and ammo we have.

For those that doubt Texas is packing....

7 Air Force Bases
7 Army Posts
2 Coast Guard bases
3 Navy Bases

0 Marines......... Because we are Texans! :lol

[CubanSucks]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/Truck%20balls%20DT.jpg

I fucking hate those things with a very strong passion. The metal ones, the fleshy looking ones, doesn't matter. The absolute most corny, tackiest, douchebaggy thing I've ever seen

[Greg Oden]

Texas has the Spurs and Spurs=class. That's all anyone needs to know.

[DarkReign]

Thats cool to know, I honestly did not know that.... Thanks! :toast

I've had a mind to trace back my family history for a while now.... My aunt (my fathers sister) did it a while back and traced our family lineage as far back as the early 16th century but unfortunately a house fire destroyed all her work and she gave it up....

Im thinking of taking up the cause again and retrace it all. My family has been involved with quite a few major points in time from what I remember of what she had found out. At the time I was too young to care, unfortunately.

It's kind of funny to think that my family has history with the Masons though, I've always wondered if that would get me some kind of access to them but never pursued it. :lol

How many slaves did your family own if you can trace back that far?

How many of your family fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War over "state's rights"?

There is a downside to not being the child of immigrants.

[DarkReign]

Texans are proud because theyre allowed to be. Just the same as anywhere else, but with a stupid accent, large hats and apparently trucks with balls attached to the hitch.

Dont proclaim to be so proud of your history only to piss on it every chance you get.

[easjer]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/Truck%20balls%20DT.jpg

Not to toot our Texas horn, but if America was invaded by a foreign country, Texas would still stand.... I think guns outnumber our population in Texas 3:1 at least, and thats a conservative number on my part.

Id feel sorry for any foreign invading army if they tried to take Texas.

In San Antonio alone:

Brooks Air Force base
Lackland Air Force Base
Camp Bullis
Fort Sam Houston


And thats not counting all us crazy Texans that are packing large ammounts of heat. Shit, just between me and my friends, we could probably take out a small army with the weapons and ammo we have.

For those that doubt Texas is packing....

7 Air Force Bases
7 Army Posts
2 Coast Guard bases
3 Navy Bases

0 Marines......... Because we are Texans! :lol

The above is why Texas reverted to independent governance when the US split up into the old USA east of the Mississippi and the new Allied States of America in the west in the tv show Jericho.

The season/series ended with Jake trying to get the last nuclear bomb to Texas (to the government in San Antonio!) as proof that the evil J&R corporation and the Allied States leadership were behind the nuclear bombs across America. He was rescued by fighter jets from Lackland.

SFIE and I were completely whooping it up when this all went down, because it was so funny.

[CuckingFunt]

There is a downside to not being the child of immigrants.

You mean life on the reservation?

[MannyIsGod]

I am not and never will be a fan of the Alamo.

[Blake]

For those that doubt Texas is packing....

7 Air Force Bases
7 Army Posts
2 Coast Guard bases
3 Navy Bases

0 Marines......... Because we are Texans! :lol

If Texas were to ever somehow secede from the Union, Texas would be packing exactly zero of those bases.

[Death In June]

I am not and never will be a fan of the Alamo.Bunch of racist, entitled hicks squatting on Mexican land, claiming it for themselves only to be murdered shortly thereafter. I don't know why people remember it any differently.

[easjer]

I am not and never will be a fan of the Alamo.

I remember being a huge fan when I was a kid.

SFIE and I visited again when we were on vacation, celebrating our annviersary; probably about 20 years since my last visit. I remember walking around, reading the letters and things and thinking "Wow. My perspective on this has shifted tremendously. I'm not so sure I could really side with these guys if I had to pick a side now. . ."

Very different view of history as an adult.

[nkdlunch]

MktlfjFb3j0

[CubanSucks]

How many slaves did your family own if you can trace back that far?

How many of your family fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War over "state's rights"?

There is a downside to not being the child of immigrants.


Texans are proud because theyre allowed to be. Just the same as anywhere else, but with a stupid accent, large hats and apparently trucks with balls attached to the hitch.

Dont proclaim to be so proud of your history only to piss on it every chance you get.

lol shitty has-been ghost town


hey, at least you've got that 8 Mile song to be proud of

[Greg Oden]

gr8 take after DarkReign ripped apart Texas natives blind with pride :tu

[SpursWoman]

I love Texas because we have no state tax.


Go, Texas!

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

It is the birthplace of beloved actor Bruce McGill. So fuck all you other states right in your Bruce McGill-less assholes.

[redzero]

It is the birthplace of beloved actor Bruce McGill. So fuck all you other states right in your Bruce McGill-less assholes.

Bruce McGill is in your asshole?

[DarkReign]

You mean life on the reservation?

Point taken, but I was talking about them white folks who can trace their roots to early colonists. It means your ancestors owned slaves in this country and most likely abused them mercilessly into a very early death.

If your family is Southern based, then your ancestors most likely fought and killed their countrymen for the right to own human beings.

Its neither here nor there in 2011, really what can you do about what folks from the past did?

But my ancestry wouldnt be something I'd go around bragging about either.

[mrsmaalox]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/Truck%20balls%20DT.jpg


That particular truck happens to be from Californ-i-ay

[Blake]

That particular truck happens to be from Californ-i-ay

then I bet theyre fake

[manufan10]

then I bet theyre fake

:lol

[Nathan Explosion]

Point taken, but I was talking about them white folks who can trace their roots to early colonists. It means your ancestors owned slaves in this country and most likely abused them mercilessly into a very early death.

If your family is Southern based, then your ancestors most likely fought and killed their countrymen for the right to own human beings.

Its neither here nor there in 2011, really what can you do about what folks from the past did?

But my ancestry wouldnt be something I'd go around bragging about either.

So what say you about the folks that are descendent from Mexicans and Germans? My ancestors were not slave owners, and many a proud Mexican fought against Santa Anna. My German heritage is very recent too.

But the one thing that gets lost in the whole Texas Revolution history is that the white man was the illegal immigrant in Texas. Mexico originally allowed them to come into and settle in Texas, but when too many of them arrived, they cut them off and only allowed them into other territories in Mexico. The white man ignored the new laws and continued settling anyway, illegally. Sound familiar?

[DarkReign]

lol shitty has-been ghost town


hey, at least you've got that 8 Mile song to be proud of

You will never see me representing Michigan/Detroit to the lengths at which the stereotype Texan would.

Am I proud? Sure. Just not loud and proud or that its some badge of honor that I never earned.

[phyzik]

Point taken, but I was talking about them white folks who can trace their roots to early colonists. It means your ancestors owned slaves in this country and most likely abused them mercilessly into a very early death.

If your family is Southern based, then your ancestors most likely fought and killed their countrymen for the right to own human beings.

Its neither here nor there in 2011, really what can you do about what folks from the past did?

But my ancestry wouldnt be something I'd go around bragging about either.

Actually, and I'll have to search for it to prove it, but my family was part of the underground railroad as well. The Ponton Family extends all throughout North and South America, Europe, Germany, Scottland and Ireland and probably more.

As I said, my Aunt had all kinds of crazy info following our family history. I remember bits and pieces, but again, I was like 11 years old and didnt really give a shit at the time.

If your asking if Im proud that my family, at some point, may have owned slaves? Fuck no! I never said that shit and it has nothing to do whatsoever on the point I was trying to make.

I can be proud of one part of my family history and still be ashamed about another part... They are not connected in any way.

[DarkReign]

Actually, and I'll have to search for it to prove it, but my family was part of the underground railroad as well. The Ponton Family extends all throughout North and South America, Europe, Germany, Scottland and Ireland and probably more.

As I said, my Aunt had all kinds of crazy info following our family history. I remember bits and pieces, but again, I was like 11 years old and didnt really give a shit at the time.

If your asking if Im proud that my family, at some point, may have owned slaves? Fuck no! I never said that shit and it has nothing to do whatsoever on the point I was trying to make.

I can be proud of one part of my family history and still be ashamed about another part... They are not connected in any way.

Meh, it wasnt an attack on you specifically, just a general mindset I have when it comes to family history. Im in this thread only to temper the Texan spirit as it were.

[silverblk mystix]

i was bourne in Sacramento, CA and moved to Texas 2 years ago. Since moving here, I have always heard people "brag" that they are from Texas and always calling people from other states "yankees" and "hippies". what gives? why are native texans so proud?

I hear that shit also and it makes me cringe...it goes from, "don't mess with texas'' to "proud to be a texan"...

I grew up in texas and then moved away for a long time...coming back now...I do appreciate many things about texas, but that texan pride is NOT one of them.

Labels such as Texan, American, republican,democrat,etc....

are pretty much bullshit and a lot of people identify THEMSELVES this way and defend it and fight for it and die for it...pretty amazing how stupid and out of touch with reality human beings can get.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

Texans are proud because theyre allowed to be. Just the same as anywhere else, but with a stupid accent, large hats and apparently trucks with balls attached to the hitch.

Dont proclaim to be so proud of your history only to piss on it every chance you get.

http://www.gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=1450842&t=o

[MannyIsGod]

So what say you about the folks that are descendent from Mexicans and Germans? My ancestors were not slave owners, and many a proud Mexican fought against Santa Anna. My German heritage is very recent too.

But the one thing that gets lost in the whole Texas Revolution history is that the white man was the illegal immigrant in Texas. Mexico originally allowed them to come into and settle in Texas, but when too many of them arrived, they cut them off and only allowed them into other territories in Mexico. The white man ignored the new laws and continued settling anyway, illegally. Sound familiar?

Really? Your love of the slaughter of thousands of Mexicans wasn't racist enough so now you try with that the Mexicans are taking over the United States in an effort to over through the government now?

You should just stop.

Maybe if the white man in the 1800s had been the victims of a stupid fucking drug war applied by the Mexicans you might have a point.

[ManuBalboa]

The above is why Texas reverted to independent governance when the US split up into the old USA east of the Mississippi and the new Allied States of America in the west in the tv show Jericho.

The season/series ended with Jake trying to get the last nuclear bomb to Texas (to the government in San Antonio!) as proof that the evil J&R corporation and the Allied States leadership were behind the nuclear bombs across America. He was rescued by fighter jets from Lackland.

SFIE and I were completely whooping it up when this all went down, because it was so funny.

lmao, I loved the series Jericho. Was cheering quietly inside when it turned out Texas was the Lone Star Third Wheel who was holding things down!