Texas Pride

[Alan Reagan]

I flew back to Atlanta from San Antonio last night with a buddy of mine. Both of us are originally from south, central Georgia. I just have one thing to say about the people of Texas. You guys are allright. Everywhere I went, everything I saw was about state pride. Seeing the state flag flying from every conceivable location as well as being in every commercial, window decal, cast in bronze in the sidewalks, you name it, it was everywhere. Now being from Georgia, that means alot. Since our illustrious idiot governor changed our flag this year to a solid blue flag with a yellow seal, no one flies the new one. You see the old one but not the new one. So Texas, my hat's off to you. Keep your pride and keep showing it every chance you get. And whatever you do, don't let the city planners responsible for San Antonio near the airport. As much as I like Texas and the people, SA has got to be the biggest nightmare in the US for driving. One thing we don't want you to export is whoever is responsible for the traffic lights and I-10 there. Heck, if the planners from SA were to hook up with our governor, no tellin' what would happen in Atlanta. Not that I care.



And one more thing, thanks a load to Texas Diesel for some help in allowing the old Georgia flag to live on anywhere it can.

 

[o_mccarroll]

Texas - There's no place like home!

 

[Ramboy]

When the wife and I first moved to Texas, my wife thought Texans were the most arrogant people on Earth. After we lived here awhile, she told me one day, "You know, what I thought was arrogance is not, it's pride. " Texans really love their state and after you live here for awhile, you will know why. I wasn't born here but I got here as quick as I could.

Phil

 

[RustyJC]

My wife, Sandy, and I are both native Texans. I was transferred to my company's headquarters in Ohio in 1975 - we didn't move back until 1997 soon after the headquarters were relocated to the Houston area. When we were driving from Ohio to Houston for the last time during our move, we stopped at the rest area just over the border in Texarkana. My wife walked over and hugged the granite Texas marker there in the rest area and cried. Only a Texan would understand...



Rusty

 

[Don M]

They never should have taken the original flag from you guys... .



I loved that flag.



I was born in 'Bama, transplanted in the 80's to Texas. I know how ya feel on the flag.

I dont know what I am now... I love the South and Texas too, I live here on a part time kinda thing.



My heart is in Idaho, of all the places, though.



Don~

 

[Fireman]

Texans have alot to be proud of !



Fireman

 

[JConley]

My kids are 8th generation Texans. The ranch has been in the family since 1839, when my wifes family was given the land grant from the Mexican Govt. They were one of the first angelo families to get a land grant from the Mexicans. They were also one of the first 200 to cross the Brazos with Steven F Austin, and Sam Houston. My wifes family has served in the early Texas Rangers, the Republic of Texas house of representatives, and the 1-3 house of representatives when Texas became a state. I will be in Texas for the rest of my life, and I couldnt be happier

 

[jwgary]

TEXAS... everything else is just details!

 

[Bill Lins]

Texan by the grace of God!

 

[TxDieselKid]

Why I'm proud? Let me count the ways.....

I got this on a list serve I'm on for Texas Music. If you've never heard of Texas Music, check out Lone Star Music. I have always been proud to be a Texan, and the first, and only in my family. This does not mean that I'm not as Texan as anybody else though in my eyes. I'm a "pure breed Texan", born, and breed here.





TEXAS PRIDE



When you're from Texas people that you meet ask you

questions like, "do you have any cows?" It's nice to be able to say yes. They ask you, "do you have horses?" Yup. Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh? Of course. They all want to know if you've been to Southfork, they watched Dallas.



Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Hell yes

you have. Look at Texas for me just for a second. That picture,

with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be.

As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas.



Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt, and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You'll get it maybe after a second, but who else would? Even if you do does it ever stir

any feelings in you?



In every man, woman and child on this little rock the Good Lord put us on, there is somewhere in them a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride in a pickup. Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow... so you're from Ok-la-homa. Cool. Tell me about it"?



There is some bit of Texas in everyone. Do you know why?

Because Texas is Texas. Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves but stayed.



We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and Bowie and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is Texas.



Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.



Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.



Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett

National Forest.



Texas is breathtaking mountains in Big Bend.



Texas is shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.



Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.



Texas is mexican food like nowhere in the world, even Mexico.



Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson and Buddy

Holly, Earl Campbell and Nolan Ryan, Denton Cooley and

Michael DeBakey, Lyndon Johnson and George Bush.





Texas is great companies like Dell Computer and Compaq.



Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.



Texas is skies blackened with doves and leases full of deer.



Texas is the best Bar-b-que anywhere.



Texas is a place where cities shut down for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football and the streets are deserted during church.



Texas is beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies.



If it isn't in Texas, you don't need it.



No one does anything bigger or better.



By federal law Texas is the only state in the U. S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U. S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, or California, or Maine, and your state flag, whatever the hell it is, goes at 17. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at 20 feet. Do you know why? Because we place being a Texan as high(, if not higher then) as being an American down here.



Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in D. C.



We signed those in as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part right there.



When we came on, Texas was its own country. The Republic of Texas.



All of that makes you proud to be a Texan.



These are just Some reasons I'm so proud,

AJB

 

[Champane Flight]

Pride?

You sure you guys want to call it pride?Hell I was born in Corpus,My folks could'nt get me over the border to Mexico in time. "Pride" as in the dictionary is :An over opinion of ones self-to take credit for... . Oh never mind I guess most Texans are proud.....

 

[dmurdock]

traffic

if you thought san antonio was bad, take a trip up north to austin for REAL traffic

 

[Alan Reagan]

Loved the people. Hated the traffic. Any of you Texans ever come east (due east) and need anything, just let me know.

 

['956Wheel]

Oh man! Yall need to get out more!

 

[JTBMC]

TEXAS DIESEL KID,

Dont forget Pecos Bill and all the great things he gave us.

 

[TxDieselKid]

may may may...

Well you know there is ALWAYS something about being the best, someone ALWAYS trys to take it away from you!



Yall (and yes we do say yall) can say what ever in the he!! you want to, it dont hurt a bit !



That list puts the BIGGEST dog-gone smile on my face eveytime I think about it.



Now on to bussiness... .



Champane Flight,

"takeing credit for" beating the entire Mexican Army with NO help from the U. S. You bet we did.



'956Wheel,

I notice your avitar was about your dog... ? You must kinda of feel about your dog, what I feel for Texas maybe. No, on second thought I'm sure I love Texas more then you love your dog.



tjlaffite,

With a minor(earning) in History, I think I know all about Pecos Bill, and don't remember spending that much time on him. Do you know something I don't?



Andrew

 

['956Wheel]

Andrew, My brother-in-law is a real Texan, so is my boss, they moved outa there. My bro-in-law is in Bentonville, AR, boss is in CA both talk all about Texas..... lets face it you love where you are at that moment. Phil from OK says that the only thing better in Texas than OK is Texas has a "higher quality of Bull$hit".



If you met my dogs you would love em too!!!!! I thought you, a Texan, would realize the importance of dogs! Are you native to Texas?



Mike

 

['956Wheel]

Re: Why I'm proud? Let me count the ways.....

Originally posted by TxDieselKid

]. I have always been proud to be a Texan, and the first, and only in my family. This does not mean that I'm not as Texan as anybody else though in my eyes. I'm a "pure breed Texan", born, and breed here.



Just what does this "mean"? Where did the family go? U B talk'in senseless! I'll bet you are another one from California!

'



Mike

 

[KatDiesel]

Interesting reading to say the least. Kinda getting a chuckle out of it.



Its not "Mexican" food out of Texas, its Tex-Mex. I wouldn't call the "mountains" in Big Bend a mountain, yes they are pretty neat looking, but nuthing like the Rockies in Colorado, tallest mountain in CO is Mt Elbert 14,433 ft. I will tell you right now there is nuthing in TX that can compare to standing on top of that mountain (speaking from personal expeirence).



My elementary school was Stephen F Austin, also in the same town was William B Travis. I don't remeber the other one, town was only 14,000 people when I was there.



I have lived in Texas 76 to 94, then Colorado 94 to 98, then moved to Omaha June 98. I like both Texas and Colorado, but would prefer to move back to CO if I had a chance. You can't beat the weather there. Both states are good places to live, I would be happy in either state.

 

[TxDieselKid]

a native???

Originally posted by '956Wheel

Andrew, My brother-in-law is a real Texan, so is my boss, they moved outa there. My bro-in-law is in Bentonville, AR, boss is in CA both talk all about Texas..... lets face it you love where you are at that moment. Phil from OK says that the only thing better in Texas than OK is Texas has a "higher quality of Bull$hit".



If you met my dogs you would love em too!!!!! I thought you, a Texan, would realize the importance of dogs! Are you native to Texas?



Mike

Mike,



First off, what is a "real" Texan? Listens to Pat Green music? Wears their Lone Star Feeder hats? Please clerify.



If that's what those gentlemen think good for them. I'll be floting down the river with a cold Shiner, jamming to old Robert Earl Keen, while they are talking about it.



Yes sir I am a native, born here in 1980 ( yeah yeah yeah, I'm a kid I know, "see the world"=NO THANKS), and have NO reason or want to leave. I littery get sick if I leave Texas. Had to spend a week in Michigan this summer, no disrespect, but it's no Texas.



About the dogs, my point is that your dogs mean a lot more to you then a lot of things. I'm sure I might love your dogs if I met them, hope I get to one day. However I am not a "dog" person. I have a bad history of dogs in my past.



Sorry for any confussion, or hurt feelings,

Andrew