Most annoying Texas stereotype.

[CharlieMac]

We're all small town rednecks. This coming from someone in Rome, New York, or Dover.

Also, while it's not technically a stereotype, I can't help but chuckle when people ask about the basement in teh Alamo.

[Useruser666]

In every made for TV movie everyone from Texas has a thick southern accent.

[SpursWoman]

I ride a horse to work, don't you?

[travis2]

In every made for TV movie everyone from Texas has a thick southern accent.
That one always makes me laugh...considering there are 3 or 4 completely different accents widely heard in Texas, depending on where you are...

[1Parker1]

I pictured everyone in Texas always walking around in little Cowboy boots :)

[batman2883]

Yeah everyone outside of Texas for some reason expects us all in cowboy hats, riding horses, and screwing our sisters???

[travis2]

I ride a horse to work, don't you?
:wow

ummmmm...don't you think that's a little TMI, SW? I mean, User probably appreciates the compliment, but do we need to hear it?

[1Parker1]

Yeah everyone outside of Texas for some reason expects us all in cowboy hats, riding horses, and screwing our sisters???


:lol Well that and eating Barbequed food every single day. :)

[SWC Bonfire]

I for one resemble all of those remarks somewhat with the exception of the sister comment.


I pictured everyone in Texas always walking around in little Cowboy boots

Some of us walk around in large cowboy boots, little lady. :eyebrows

[batman2883]

:lol Well that and eating Barbequed food every single day. :)


Nothing wrong with eating bbq everyday..

[Ginofan]

I absolutely HATE the cowboy/redneck stereotype. No I don't live on a ranch with cows and chickens everywhere, and no I don't have tumbleweeds blowin threw my front yard. And NO I don't ride a horse everywhere!

[1Parker1]

I absolutely HATE the cowboy/redneck stereotype. No I don't live on a ranch with cows and chickens everywhere, and no I don't have tumbleweeds blowin threw my front yard. And NO I don't ride a horse everywhere!


Hey, I never thought you guys did any of that........just the cowboy boots and BBQ thing...:lol

[1Parker1]

Nothing wrong with eating bbq everyday..


which leads me to the other sterotype I've heard about Texans....that the majority are overweight...which I never understood because 70% of America is probably overweight.

[batman2883]

cowboy boots???? BBQ alright i can understand that, who couldnt Rudys is the best damn BBQ place in town and its oh so delicious

[SWC Bonfire]

which leads me to the other sterotype I've heard about Texans....that the majority are overweight...which I never understood because 70% of America is probably overweight.

The same could be said for Philadelphia.

[batman2883]

which leads me to the other sterotype I've heard about Texans....that the majority are overweight...which I never understood because 70% of America is probably overweight.

Everything in Texas is bigger ya know......EVERYTHING

[1Parker1]

Oh and another one. Texans say "Ya'll" a lot?

[CharlieMac]

Oh and another one. Texans say "Ya'll" a lot?

Yes on that.

[1Parker1]

The same could be said for Philadelphia.


Well damn, why are you getting all huffy? I'm just saying sterotypes I've heard. Which is why I said I never got that one. Because I'm sure more than half of America is overweight.

....And ur right, we do have a lot of overweight people around here (probably all them cheesesteaks and pretzels).

[batman2883]

And so what people from New Jersey say "yous guys" a lot??? which sounds better?

[1Parker1]

Everything in Texas is bigger ya know......EVERYTHING


:lol

[Clandestino]

that stereotype helped me hook up many, many times while i was in europe! hahaha.. european dudes are very effiminate. the women loved the manly texas men!

[1Parker1]

And so what people from New Jersey say "yous guys" a lot??? which sounds better?


Hey Philly says, "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dAWG". I never said anything was wrong with saying Ya'll.

[SWC Bonfire]

The fact is that a majority of people in Texas lived in small towns prior to WWII. People have been moving into cities in the last half of a century or so to get them to current levels. Hell, 1/7th of the entire population of the state used to live in West Texas. Now it's like 1/30th, and West Texas is desolate.

[batman2883]

Hey Philly says, "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dAWG". I never said anything was wrong with saying Ya'll.


Thats not just a Philly thing though i say that shit all the time, that and "Whats really good son"....

[SWC Bonfire]

that stereotype helped me hook up many, many times while i was in europe! hahaha.. european dudes are very effiminate. the women loved the manly texas men!

I can confirm that. Talk real slow and say "darlin'" a lot. :tu

[SWC Bonfire]

I should add that I love the stereotype, because I still fit it.

I live on a ranch.

[skibop22]

kinda got to think about it though......the team name is the San Antonio ....."Spurs", which cowboys wear spurs, the mascot is a friggin coyote, which would refer to "country", the owner of the spurs, struts around in his cowboy boots and hat. Up north of us you have the Dallas "Mavericks", the Dallas "Cowboys", the Texas "Rangers", so I see that it would be an easy to stereotype us.....

[ObiwanGinobili]

:lol Well that and eating Barbequed food every single day. :)


well actually.................. :angel

[batman2883]

Fuck the New England Patriots have a patriot as their mascot...i dont expect them to be running around in colonial clothing, the Oakland Raiders mascot is a raider....well quite frankly you can be raided by anyone from Oakland so thats not a good example...but there is the atlanta Braves, i dont expect to see real indians running around Atlanta with full indian tribal wear..

[SWC Bonfire]

^^^ You don't wear cowboy boots? What are you, a damn Yankee? :lol

[ObiwanGinobili]

i hate how everyone thinks Texans are racist.
It;s wnough to make you wish east texas would just secceed and form it;s own state.

[batman2883]

^^^ You don't wear cowboy boots? What are you, a damn Yankee? :lol


Im no honky or damn tejano person to want to even come close to thinking about wearing cowboy boots...

[ObiwanGinobili]

Fuck the New England Patriots have a patriot as their mascot...i dont expect them to be running around in colonial clothing, the Oakland Raiders mascot is a raider....well quite frankly you can be raided by anyone from Oakland so thats not a good example...but there is the atlanta Braves, i dont expect to see real indians running around Atlanta with full indian tribal wear..


Patriots old mascot/symbol was the minueteman.. they shoulda stuck with that. he was cool.

[ObiwanGinobili]

I do not own a pair of Rockies or Justins.

[batman2883]

Patriots old mascot/symbol was the minueteman.. they shoulda stuck with that. he was cool.


I bet your use to minute-men huh...drum roll please.......im here all week

[batman2883]

i hate how everyone thinks Texans are racist.
It;s wnough to make you wish east texas would just secceed and form it;s own state.


I'm racist

[SWC Bonfire]

Im no honky or damn tejano person to want to even come close to thinking about wearing cowboy boots...

Since when did you have to be a honky or tejano to wear cowboy boots?

[batman2883]

since its the damn 21st century now whats the need to wear cowboys boots anymore? Its a serious fashion no no

[CharlieMac]

Fuck the New England Patriots have a patriot as their mascot...i dont expect them to be running around in colonial clothing, the Oakland Raiders mascot is a raider....well quite frankly you can be raided by anyone from Oakland so thats not a good example...but there is the atlanta Braves, i dont expect to see real indians running around Atlanta with full indian tribal wear..

:lol

[SWC Bonfire]

since its the damn 21st century now whats the need to wear cowboys boots anymore? Its a serious fashion no no

Sounds like someone's got a queer eye for him. :lol

This is TEXAS, dammit. We have our own identity, or make your own, but don't go copying what some damn New Yorker does.

[ObiwanGinobili]

I don;t wear boots cause they are not my style and i htin kthey are uncomfortable.

but they arn't a fashion no-no. they are very fashionable for say someone who wears cowboy boots.

[batman2883]

I dont copy no one i make up my own style and i like to mix it up but hell if i were to were crotch crunchers and cowboy boots, (sarcastically) that rite there be for hillbillys, honkies, and tejano's

[Shelly]

I say 'you guys' all the time. But then again, I'm not a native to Texas.

As for the the southern accent part....outside of saying y'all, I don't think I've met a native San Antonian that really had a southern accent. I notice it more in people that are from Houston and East Texas.

[batman2883]

NO NO NO Shelly not you guys, ...."yous guys"

[samikeyp]

I think for me its also the whole "out in the country" thing. Like we are on the edge of the world or something. Although my wife and I both have family who are envious of Texas....because we have Sonic! :)

[1Parker1]

NO NO NO Shelly not you guys, ...."yous guys"


I always thought "you guys" was a general saying that everyone uses. I use it too.

[batman2883]

Damn it everyone says you guys.....Jersey people say.....YOUS Guys they put an s on you

[1Parker1]

Damn it everyone says you guys.....Jersey people say.....YOUS Guys they put an s on you


I've never heard Jersey people particularly say "Yous Guys"

[batman2883]

What the hell???

[ObiwanGinobili]

i think the problem is thta everytime batman types an "s" it uses it's tiuny little esp powers to blockl itself from being read or comprehended by others.

[batman2883]

i think the problem is thta everytime batman types an "s" it uses it's tiuny little esp powers to blockl itself from being read or comprehended by others.

Thank you Obiwan......

[1Parker1]

What the hell???


:lol Ok forget it, I'm not going to argue with you over "Yous Guys"

[ObiwanGinobili]

I've never heard Jersey people particularly say "Yous Guys"


i know plenty of jersey folks who say "yous guys"
and i know a few folks from queens who say "yous guys"
and I know more than a few people from Bridgeport who say "yous guys".

it gets said. and it gets said in the tri-state area.

[batman2883]

i know plenty of jersey folks who say "yous guys"
and i know a few folks from queens who say "yous guys"
and I know more than a few people from Bridgeport who say "yous guys".

it gets said. and it gets said in the tri-state area.


Obiwan if you werent pregnant and married already i might have fallen in love with you......then dumped you after a couple of weeks

[ObiwanGinobili]

Obiwan if you werent pregnant and married already i might have fallen in love with you......then dumped you after a couple of weeks


well lord knows I don;t fuck things up. :angel

[Shelly]

I'm not orignally from NJ, hence, the YOU guys....

[Marcus Bryant]

Texas is easy to denigrate, provided you never have lived there.

[batman2883]

well lord knows I don;t fuck things up. :angel


Do you have a pretty mouth?

[batman2883]

Texas is easy to denigrate, provided you never have lived there.


Well so is a whole pletura of cities and states such as
California
Florida
D.C.
West Virginia
Alabama

[samikeyp]

People in Western Pennsylvania like to use "you-ins" much like we use "ya'll"

[Shelly]

Well so is a whole pletura of cities and states such as
California
Florida
D.C.
West Virginia
Alabama

True, however, I'm not sure the stuff about Alabama isn't true...:lol

[ObiwanGinobili]

True, however, I'm not sure the stuff about Alabama isn't true...:lol

I would've said the same thing about Arkansas.. :fro :lol

[bigzak25]

i don't like the stereotype that we are all cowboys on a ranch, with tumbleweeds rolling by our houses everyday...but i guess it could be worse.

Having just come from ChiTown, Everyone asked me where the hell my accent was? It wasn't annoying, but I found it interesting that everyone apparently seems to think Every Texan has a twang. :lol

[MiNuS]

Steretype I don't mind: Everyone in Texas is a Spurs fan. Mav Fans are metrosexual and Rocket fans are disgruntled Oiler fans.They're no longer Texas citizens.


Governor Perry is a Spur fan.If Austin is the heart of Texas then what is San Antonio??

[batman2883]

Steretype I don't mind: Everyone in Texas is a Spurs fan. Mav Fans are metrosexual and Rocket fans are disgruntled Oiler fans.They're no longer Texas citizens.


Governor Perry is a Spur fan.If Austin is the heart of Texas then what is San Antonio??



You have to taste my pork because.....its.....the world

[tlongII]

I'm sure you people are aware that virtually all stereotypes have their basis in fact.

[Mixability]

Governor Perry is a Spur fan.If Austin is the heart of Texas then what is San Antonio??

oooh oooh pick me..... uh, the stomach? :lol

[Horry For 3!]

In every made for TV movie everyone from Texas has a thick southern accent.
Yeah, that is funny. I have no accent.

[Extra Stout]

I say 'you guys' all the time. But then again, I'm not a native to Texas.

As for the the southern accent part....outside of saying y'all, I don't think I've met a native San Antonian that really had a southern accent. I notice it more in people that are from Houston and East Texas.That's because East Texas is the only part of the state that is culturally Southern. Those folks are descended from settlers who moved from LA, MS, and AL, primarily. I like to say that East Texas is a haven for the kind of people who find northern Louisiana too cosmopolitan and forward-thinking.

The Panhandle is culturally similar to the Great Plains states. El Paso and its environs are much like New Mexico. South Texas way down there is like northern Mexico.

The "middle" of the state, i.e. the Triangle, the Hill Country, and the rest of the Edwards Plateau, is the "Texas" part of Texas where the culture is its own thing unlike other parts of the country. Basically, you take Upper South settlers from TN, NC, SC, and VA, mix them with Midwestern farmers and ranchers, mix them some more with Germans and Czechs, and then put in a huge dollop of Mexican. Blend the whole thing and let it sit for a hundred years trying to carve out a living from the land until it figures out there's black gold in the ground. Yeehaw.

[TheAdmiral#50]

We All where cowboy hats, cowboy boots and ride horses. :bang

[Jelly]

there is a racist stereotype that really gets on my nerves. I used to share an office with a couple of people from the Northeast. They were your typical "intellectual", ivy league liberals...one went to Cornell, the other Princeton, both got their MBAs from Wharton. They would frequently take potshots at "backwards" places like Texas, and the south in general. Once, after I told them that Texas was far less racist than DC, they rolled their eyes and cited the dragging death of James Byrd (was that his name?) insisting that something like that was irrefutable evidence of the rampant racism in Texas. :cuss

[mookie2001]

1. I like Bush
2. ive actually been to Dallas more than 1 time

[Jelly]

also, every single person upon learning I'm from Texas asks me where my "accent" is.

oh...and at company Christmas parties, people like to put on Billy Ray Cyrus and ask me to teach them how to line dance :lmao

[Horry For 3!]

also, every single person upon learning I'm from Texas asks me where my "accent" is.

oh...and at company Christmas parties, people like to put on Billy Ray Cyrus and ask me to teach them how to line dance :lmao
"But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart"

[MiNuS]

Yeah, that is funny. I have no accent.
Its funny that we "think" we have no accent but if you go to New York they'll know right away that you're Texan. You can try real hard to hide your Texas accent but it will always be there until the end.

[batman2883]

I have more of a New York accent than a texas one, oh and another thing...whats the deal with the professor he can make coconut into a radio but he cant fix a hole in the side of boat?

[ObiwanGinobili]

there is a racist stereotype that really gets on my nerves. I used to share an office with a couple of people from the Northeast. They were your typical "intellectual", ivy league liberals...one went to Cornell, the other Princeton, both got their MBAs from Wharton. They would frequently take potshots at "backwards" places like Texas, and the south in general. Once, after I told them that Texas was far less racist than DC, they rolled their eyes and cited the dragging death of James Byrd (was that his name?) insisting that something like that was irrefutable evidence of the rampant racism in Texas. :cuss


thats exactly what I'm sayin!! I always tell people that east texas is actually part of Arkansas........

[SWC Bonfire]

To hell with 'em. If they're so rude that they have to point out bad attributes of your home state, I say give 'em an adios and deal with somebody else. It's poor business, and not at all professional.

[CosmicCowboy]

what stereotypes?

[j-6]

there is a racist stereotype that really gets on my nerves. I used to share an office with a couple of people from the Northeast. They were your typical "intellectual", ivy league liberals...one went to Cornell, the other Princeton, both got their MBAs from Wharton. They would frequently take potshots at "backwards" places like Texas, and the south in general. Once, after I told them that Texas was far less racist than DC, they rolled their eyes and cited the dragging death of James Byrd (was that his name?) insisting that something like that was irrefutable evidence of the rampant racism in Texas. :cuss

Congrats on not sharing an office with two pompous Yankees anymore.

[samikeyp]

Congrats on not sharing an office with two pompous Yankees anymore.

agreed.

[N.Y. Johnny]

I have more of a New York accent than a texas one, oh and another thing...whats the deal with the professor he can make coconut into a radio but he cant fix a hole in the side of boat?



:lmao I have an accent like that also....i stick out around town and in Texas :king

[CrazyOne]

I spent a lot of years in Dallas... if someone grew up around there, you could tell what side of town they came from. My mom's side of the family grew up around the Mesquite area and their accent is as hick as it comes... except for my mom, strangely...

[mookie2001]

Dallas isn't really Texas
if you think about it
its only good quality is that steven stills, srv and pantera are from there

[Faccia di Angelo]

:lmao I have an accent like that also....i stick out around town and in Texas :king
You do have an accent and stick out around here. lol I get a kick out of it.


You're rude, obnoxious, loud and curse like a sailor

regular NYer, forget about it :lol

[N.Y. Johnny]

You do have an accent and stick out around here. lol I get a kick out of it.


You're rude, obnoxious, loud and curse like a sailor

regular NYer, forget about it :lol



well i'm sure those 2 poor bastards at Best Buy knew where i came from and was on par with that expectation of NYers ...:lmao
forget it i'm not one of the nicer ones i guess :spin

[Samr]

We live just south of Boerne. What pisses me off is that I have to say "just south" or "just outside" to help shed the assumptions that we are just a bunch of gun-shootin', huntin', cursin' an' dippin' rednecks. Not the Texas Cowboy stereotype, the Boerne Redneck stereotype.

That REALLY pisses me off.

[Chris]

The whole bit about only steers and queers come from Texas gets on my nerves.

[Sportcamper]

It really "frosts my hide" that people think that every guy from Texas drives around in a pick up truck drinking beer with one of these decals on the back window... :smokin
http://www.signcreation.net/acatalog/1737-4.jpg http://www.youricons.com/buddy-icons/chevrolet10.gif

[Extra Stout]

We live just south of Boerne. What pisses me off is that I have to say "just south" or "just outside" to help shed the assumptions that we are just a bunch of gun-shootin', huntin', cursin' an' dippin' rednecks. Not the Texas Cowboy stereotype, the Boerne Redneck stereotype.

That REALLY pisses me off.I wasn't aware of that stereotype. I thought all people from Boerne wore liederhosen and ate sauerkraut and wienerschnitzel with beer at every meal and grew hops in their backyard.

[batman2883]

damn wienerschnitzel is delicious

[Extra Stout]

Oh yeah I forgot about the bratwurst and the apple strudel. Oh, and everyone in Boerne sells antiques for a living.

[batman2883]

and everyone in Boerne sells antiques for a living.


Yeah but thats true

[SWC Bonfire]

Oh, and everyone in Boerne sells antiques for a living.

That one actually is true. :lol

Y'all are missing the point. Every time you are out of state, you should do your dead best to perpetuate the stereotype and leave the person you met stupider than when you found them.

[shelshor]

Yankees who don't know the differences between a redneck and white trash